Or, since we don't have the Wiki any longer, here is another idea that
may work.
What about some kind of a spot on the App Central, where we could upload
plain text documents. An FTP server, or something like when we upload
our apps. Exact form could be discussed, and I guess, it depends a bit
on the way GW's servers are set up.
Say we had such a place, I could have named an article
"Internationalizing your app - The Importance Of Country Codes". I would
use the same name, for later versions of the file, and therefore, the
file would always be the latest version. That's a tiny difference from
the App Central, since there is no need for older versions of the
articles, so when I upload a new version, it will replace the old one in
full, long as I keep the filename steady. Any user could go there and
download the text, or could open the file in his browser. Yet, only I
could edit my own article, and it had to be done locally, prior to
uploading. Others - who has points for modifications to the contents of
the article - would have to mail me, and I would have to include the
corrections and upload the new version. In other words, you become your
own editor. Smile.
Since only you can edit your own articles, and uploading them need a
login to the app central, I do see less chance of hacking. At least, did
anyone hack that one, then they likely will hack the whole app central.
The main difference here, is that you don't upload a WEPM file, rather a
TXT file (alternatively, the central could accept DOC files as well).
And, the fact that no older versions of the article will be stored.
From my simple stand, I do see this to be a rather easy way to
implement. OK, why not just publish the articles on the mailinglist?
Because of two main reasons. People tend to forget what has been written
in mails, that they have deleted. And, because people then could be
reading outdated versions, that was published at an earlier point, and
maybe get misinformed about an unclear point.
OK, so you loose the ability to "link" your stuff with reference to
other articles, like you could in the Wiki. Then again, the writer does
need no further knowledge about the Wiki markup language, hence maybe we
have provided more for new writers.
Wel, just a small idea for consideration.
David
In another thread, On 6/11/2014 8:15 PM, Chip Orange wrote:
> Thanks much again David.
>
> This is where we really miss the GW WE wiki, because you could have taken
> this message and expanded it into an "internationalizing" article, which
> would have been available to every developer; and which you could easily
> update as time and further ideas occurred to you (or anyone). So, GW,
would
> you reconsider the wiki with your new partner?
