Re: Wikis

The last wiki I worked with was TWIKI.  It was pretty good,
easy to use, etc.  I recommend it.  I've also worked with
wikiwiki but that was a while ago.

One comment on wikis--they should never be confused with
published documentation.  Either they are completely the
published documentation or they are the place to *talk* about
the documentation.  Scattering "official" information is a hazard with
wikis.  This is from experience.  I have used wikis both for
The Documentation and as an adjunct to documentation.  It is just
important to make the distinction.  People will update the wiki
and forget to propagate the info the the official docs.  This is
a social, not a technical problem, though.

elein
elein@norcov.com

On Friday 01 November 2002 16:25, Justin Clift wrote:
> elein wrote:
> > Neil (et al),
> >
> > The kernel traffic sounds great.  In previous mail I had said I
> > was interested in doing a column from pg-general items.
> >
> > Are you going to do this on the wiki that Nicolas set up?
> > If so, I would follow suit, however, I won't be able to start until
> > the week after next due to other obligations.
>
> Not sure where Neil want to do it, but am intent on adding Wiki
> facilities to the Techdocs site, and it might be a better centralised
> place for it.
>
> :-)
>
> Regards and best wishes,
>
> Justin Clift
>
> > elein
> > elein@norcov.com