I agree with last speaker John Summerfield here. A wiki has it's pros and cons, I think it's best use is for keeping links, hints and tips, useful scripts, experinces and solution to problems and so on. A sort of 'nice-to-have-docs' at a known location. The place to put things if it is suitable after it has been on this list.
Cordialement / Vriendelijke Groeten / Best Regards / Med Vänliga Hälsningar Tore Agblad Volvo Information Technology Infrastructure Mainframe Design & Development SE-405 08, Gothenburg Sweden E-mail: tore.agb...@volvo.com http://www.volvo.com/volvoit/global/en-gb/ ________________________________________ From: Linux on 390 Port [linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of John Summerfield [deb...@herakles.homelinux.org] Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 04:16 To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Linux and z/VM Wiki Jack Woehr wrote: > David Boyes wrote: >>> 3. Redirect discussion of what should be on the Wiki to discussion >>> pages of the Wiki itself!!! >>> * Like, uh, that's what Wikis are for :) >>> >> >> What's wrong with discussing it here, >> > What's wrong with keeping all the source files in your computer program > on different computers? > > A Wiki is self-contained, info and rationale, rolled into one. That's > about half of why they're so useful. > Instead of a website filled with assertion, they're sites filled with > assertion and justification. Every man and his dog can create a wiki, and it's difficult to tell which are authoritative. Take Redhat/Fedora wikis for example. There are some hosted by Red Hat and the Fedora Project. Then, some of the developers/team members head off to other places to create wikis of their own, maybe as authoritative, maybe not. Maybe they like blowing their own trumpets, instead of promoting the project as a whole. Who should, sensibly, assume that this site speaks for any part of the Linux community? http://pathname.com/ I'm a member of the woodwork forums, http://www.woodworkforums.com/ which seems to be the best place (but certainly not the only place) to discuss matters woody. I find it quite difficult to keep track of what's happening there, though there are daily mails sent out for threads members are enrolled in (and one enrolls either deliberately or by contributing), but for anything new one has to go looking. In contrast, everything on this list arrives in my inbox. I see everything, choose what to read, respond where I feel the urge. If it was a wiki, I'd be battling to keep up, I'd probably just fall away. A site like http://isay.js.id.au/ can be good for documenting stuff (or publishing one's opinions), and http://www.php.net shows how well documentation based on a wiki can work, there is the official description and then user comments to clarify finer points, suggest alternatives or document handy tricks. -- Cheers John -- spambait 1aaaa...@coco.merseine.nu z1aaaa...@coco.merseine.nu -- Advice http://webfoot.com/advice/email.top.php http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 You cannot reply off-list:-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
