On 6/23/07, Jean-Francois Nifenecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Frank Peters a écrit : > Per Eriksson wrote: >> But is the wiki the right way to go? How often will different versions > > I'm not sure but I would like to evaluate that. For some info types it > will definitely be the right way to go (FAQs, Howtos, Application > Help, all that modular stuff). I think a wiki is a good tool for *short* articles publication. Such an article could be: "how to use chapter numbering". While "Using mail merge" or "Using styles and templates" are not topics for a wiki entry, IMO. These have to be devoted to a book-like document. Wikis have been brought to a wide audience mainly because of the spread of wikipedia. Though, I do know many people -- incl. in the IT field -- who do not know what they are about and who do prefer a printable document they can read in situations where they have no access to any computer or web site. These old-fashioned users are still alive and kicking. We have to accomodate this population because they see office automation tools like OOo as a means of producing such printable documentation. Therefore I would go for two levels of documentation: (1) quickly answered questions through a wiki and (2) broad information using book-like documents (pdfs or something). The difficult part of the latter being keeping it up-to-date with the software evolution. > > I agree that topic size may actually be an issue. If you split books by > chapter, the individual chapters may get too big to handle via wiki. > Maybe you need to get more granular. Yes. -- Jean-Francois Nifenecker, Bordeaux
What about putting links on the wiki pages to the bigger documents? Or would that be too much for the wiki to handle? If so, maybe there can be a separate page for the PDFs or whatever that can be linked to through the wiki. Maybe organize it by subject and set up the links to take the reader to the correct section. ---------------------------------------------------------------------
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