Sandra Parks's Profile

ivergent visions of what constitutes an appropriate policy. The result is an application of what the CommunityWiki describes as the SecondCopyrightImpossibilityTheorem: "Every copyright policy will be incompatible with at least one other copyright policy in

As users apply wikis more commonly in their practice, they increasingly come to depend on them. A gradual increase in user expectations has potentially serious consequences. For instance, a brief Internet server failure (it’s been known to happen) may be catastrophic the night before an assignment deadline, or just before a conference presentation, if users have not been prompted to save backups on their personal hard drives. Similarly, project leaders may regret plunging ahead with wiki-based initiatives without considering potential technical pitfalls.