On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 14:05:00 PST ron minnich <rminn...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Bakul Shah <ba...@bitblocks.com> wrote: > > > But I am not a fan of Wikis. Usually a wiki ends up being an > > unstructured collection of useful facts that can go stale as > > it takes a lot of effort to keep it organized. > > Would be interesting if every wiki entry came with an expiration date, > and entries just went away or no longer appeared. So much of what I > find on wikis is completely wrong any more.
A wiki is fine for something like an encyclopedia which is basically a collection of loosely coupled information, or as a corkboard of research notes. A handbook can start out organized. Everything can be put in its proper place, easy to parallelize the effort and reorg is easy (mostly just metadata reorg -- in wiki you will have to do cut-n-paste between pages). See the online FreeBSD handbook for an example.
