Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Tim Parkin wrote: > >> How about designing a website and showing us what you think would be a >> good idea? Or suggesting some way of managing all of the content and >> building the system. > > I think I just did that: > > the easiest way to get there would be to use a MoinMoin instance to main- > tain the content, and a separate renderer to generate static pages for the > main site (possibly using Cheetah or Kid as template languages). > > to which you responded > > A wiki is not a website and to try to shoehorn a wiki into a content > manage- > ment system is not a good final goal. > > which is an interesting thing to say at a time when "wikipedia" has > joined "google" and "blog" as the internet things that everyone has > heard about... >
Well I happen to agree whole-heartedly with Tim on that one. I can't stand trying to navigate some of these Wiki-trying-to-be-website pages. It is impossible to find anything on most of them (notice I didn't say all..there are exceptions). It seems like they cater to people who: a) Get some sort of sick pleasure out of searching webpages by manually constructing regular expressions. b) Love the fact that every other word is a link and end up in a 3 hour link-clinking session until they have visited every link. Navigating a Wiki to me feels more like trying to find the proverbial needle in a haystack, or perhaps it is more like painting a wall by flinging paint at it with a spoon. But maybe that's just me. I sometimes have a compulsion for methodically checking everything in a sane order. That's probably just my code review skills, or dungeon-crawling instincts kicking in. ;o) M. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
