I like wikis but it depends very much on the people behind them. Wikis
provide a more formal format than forums and offer a better presentation
in my opinion. Personally I hate digging through forums and mailing
archives. A wiki allows you to present important discussions and
detailed issues in a more organized format.
A wiki fills a certain gap with documentation. Questions such as "Why
the binary config format?" and others that deserve a full answer
supported by different opinions is best presented by a wiki. This could
go in the FAQ but to do full justice to the question it would span quite
a bit of the FAQ. There are other fundamental design issues that ought
to go into a wiki sort of format to preserve their importance and
maintain a logical argument for their existence. With the forum/mailing
system these issues are quickly lost in the past and inevitably arise
again when someone new (or forgetful) brings up the same issue.
Anyhow, for an example of a well developed wiki see:
http://wiki.osafoundation.org
I did some wiki experiments a while ago; here are a few of my reactions:
TikiWiki - Full featured but a bit cluttered looking and complex, well
known and has a large community
MediaWiki - Clean and Stable but lacking some features such as file
upload other than pictures (wikipedia)
Kwiki - A simple clean wiki, modular design
DokuWiki - Another wiki designed for documentation that has a nice clean
feel
Not Recommended:
Phpwiki - Seemed a bit buggy and I've seen errors from sites that use
phpwiki, not particularly feature full anyway
MoinMoin - A bit harder to install because its python based, I found
some design quirks annoying, not all that bad though, just not great.
Arlo
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