Wiki Book

This hardly an idea, more like two half ideas that already exist and I'm just sticking them together like glue. To be more precise with my metaphor the glue that sticks them together also probably erodes the essence of the two things being stuck together, but I'm into deforming things I guess.

Wikis are great cause they use as many people's knowledge as possible. And they create a sense of group editing that sort of prevents the project from collapsing into random knowledge. (In fact this is probably my least favourite thing about wikis, that whole unspoken sense of what is suited and what is not, but in this instance it is the source of it's power.)

Books are great too cause are so bound and definitive. They create limits on knowledge. They say, in the book good, out of the book not. Or something like that. What they do is close off the time element that makes a wiki always so close to collapse. With a wiki, one day that unspoken community of editors could go away and I could go on and edit everything. Deface it all until whatever was good in it is gone. With a book, only a jerk with a marker can to that and only to one copy at a time. 

So, make a wiki. Set a time limit. One year or whatever. And then print the fucker. Or you could even set a time limit but not tell anybody. So that there isn't this sense that you are working towards anything. Or you could even print the wiki multiple times. Like a once a year glimpse into what the wiki is and looks like. Has it grown? Shrunk? Become more tight or loose? Improved in grammar? All of these are interesting questions. And I'm not done with physical format words. So give em here.