[openbeos] Re: The Wiki
- From: "Waldemar Kornewald" <wkornew@xxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 19:18:05 +0200
Hi Jorge,
On 9/29/06, Jorge G. Mare (a.k.a. Koki) <koki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Wikis are a very good collaborative tools, easy to use and flexible. I
agree with Austin that a wiki would be beneficial to Haiku.
But what do we want to use it for?
The problem that I see with our present wiki is that it looks like a
replacement for the website (duplication of content included), and it
should not.
Yes, that is the main problem and we should really clean it up and
delete all unneeded articles if we want to keep the wiki.
Even if the answer is no, I would not just drop the wiki altogether.
Instead, I would use it as a knowledge base for community contributed
content, but within certain defined guidelines, so that there is no
unnecessary duplication of content.
A knowledge base might be a good use for our wiki. I just don't know
whether enough people will maintain it in case we use some other tool
for our documentation. Who will remove spam?
Also, is there no better (more specialized) tool for this?
What would be the appropriate way to ask a question? Do you have to
create a new page and manually add links to your question? How do you
track unanswered questions? Do you just put your question on a big
page and the person who answers will take care of creating a new page
and adding appropriate links? That could result in a great mess.
In a wiki you don't really have good guidelines and simple submission
forms. I'd prefer a tool which shows "unanswered questions" and
"answered questions". Everyone would be able to submit and edit
questions and answers like in a wiki, but the interface would be much
simper.
I have a question: why is the wiki limited to articles related to
development? What's wrong with having, for example, Haiku Tips for end
users in the wiki?
Nothing. I never said it should be limited to development. Actually, I
think that it should *not* be used for development because Drupal and
Trac are good enough (hopefully) and the wiki would just introduce
more confusion (remember, we recently had two developers edit old
articles in the wiki instead of the website).
Bye,
Waldemar Kornewald
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