[dokuwiki] Re: DokuWiki forum

On Sat, 2005-09-24 at 04:15 +0100, Christopher Arndt wrote:
> Bert Garcia schrieb:
> > In keeping with the simple theme of DokuWiki, I would recommend PunBB.
> > PunBB is a very light forum, just the basics and no frills, in other
> > words light on system resources.
> > 
> > I would volunteer to help set it up, get a new theme made up and help
> > moderate it. Maybe someone could write a script to feed this mailing
> > list to the forum, so we could populate it with helpful posts.
> > 
> > Does this sound like a good idea?
> 
> Well, I don't know. Forums are a good thing, if your interested in one special
> topic for a while but then don't bother about it any more. They seem to 
> attract
> a lot more beginner level people but not so many advanced users.
> 
> IMHO it's because you have to visit them regularly to keep up with what's 
> going
> on, whereas with mailing list you just keep on getting the posts and if
> somethings occurs that interests you, you can intervene. So, in my experience,
> in web forums the newbies just remain among their own, because no advanced
> users bother to follow the discussions.
i disagree, the gentoo forums works very well, there are many skilled
people, i believe a forum for dokuwiki would be nice

> 
> I'd suggest setting up a dokuwiki-help list instead. Nowadays with GMane and
> the likes you don't have to worry about preserving old posts...
> 
> Just my 2 cents
> 
> Chris

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