Chris Lott wrote:
Hi!
> 1) I communicated with Pascal and he indicated that
> scid-chess.org sounded like the best fit to him. So I plan
> to purchase and set that up.
Set the wiki up first to get people on board, name is second
order. (IMHO)
> 2) Where the wiki can shine, I think, is in providing a
> place where a) enthusiasts can contribute and b) things
> that don't exactly fit into the "official
> documentation"--whether because they are digressions,
> tutorials, tips and tricks, etc-- can be shared in a
> central location.
Keep in mind not to hook off the current community. There
should be a way where I can see what's going on without the
necessity to point my webbrowser to the page. At least if
you want comments from my end to a question. Probably you
don't ;)
> 3) The official scid docs remain where they are.
Given proper setup of the wiki one could easily add a simple
url call to the end of each chapter in Scid that points to
the Wiki section. I think, just for this the wiki pages
should map somehow to the online docs.
> 4) The mailing list remains the central place for
> discussion. I agree with Alexander that trying to hold
> discussions on the wiki doesn't make a lot of sense. It
> doesn't fit the form. I do think there should be "comment"
> or "talk" or some kind of pages where people can share
> meta-conversation without altering the page itself, but
> the wikipedia model of discussion isn't applicable here.
MySQL docs are IMHO a good model.
> 5) Take this for what it's worth, but I work with social
> software for a living and comparisons of most wikis to
> wikipedia are epic FAILs because wikipedia is unlike
> almost any other wiki due to its sheer size and
> popularity.
You are right, I did not want to compare it to Wikipedia,
just point out some ideas.
> 6) re: wiki shortcomings. Pascal mentioned that wikis
> weren't good with complex data structures and didn't have
> finely granulated security...
Do we really need that???
> so the main issue is preventing spam
Yes.
>Really, I think simple is best.
Agree, and the most important thing IMHO is that the editor
is usable and simple. === is really not simpler than <h2>.
None of the users should have to fiddle with this kind of
"simplicity". (Having a sandbox for a Wiki is synonymous to
say "we failed" before even getting started...)
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