> In a message dated: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 08:56:00 CST > Linas Vepstas said: > > >I have some reservations about wiki's in general, though. If you have > >ever used any, you will note that they are invariably badly organized > >and ugly looking to boot. They still need a strong editorial hand to > >be worthwhile. I did see some related tool faq-o-matic or something > >like that, that was not sinfully ugly. I'm thinking the best looking, > >and most usable, would be a slashdot-like thing, e.g. phpnuke, or > >whatever. It avoids the problems that wiki's have. > > I feel the same about wikis in general. However, with a strong > editorial hand, they can be quite organized. But it will require > determination and vigilence of the person(s) maintaining the site. > > FAQ-O-Matic on the other hand, is designed to be strongly organized > and less free form than a wiki. But again, it too has the > possibility to creep out of control. > > It boils down to this: both are tools which are meant to assist in > solving different types of problems, but neither is a complete > replacement for a human. Technology is seldom the answer to that > which basically a human behavioral problem. i.e., people have a > tendancy to be sloppy, and these tools will allow that behavior :)
The big problem with /any/ of these tools is that they are good for generating ad-hoc bits of documentation, but are pretty weak at integrating this together to push it into more formal document sets. What I haven't seen that I'd like to see is a tool that would turn a Wiki into one big interlinked DocBook document; that would go a long ways towards allowing Wiki work to be integrated into "traditional" document sets. The result would be a pretty sloppy set of DocBook, but that's better than nothing... -- (concatenate 'string "cbbrowne" "@cbbrowne.com") http://www.ntlug.org/~cbbrowne/docbook.html Rules of the Evil Overlord #129. "Despite the delicious irony, I will not force two heroes to fight each other in the arena." <http://www.eviloverlord.com/> _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
