How about a thread that gets pinned to the top where new documentation entries can be posted?
People who ask questions aren't necessarily good at documentation, and it might be pouring cold water on the whole discourse thing to demand it of them. But collecting finished responses into one thread, thus making it easy(ier) to incorporate into the main tiddlywiki, seems doable. Mark On Saturday, December 10, 2016 at 7:56:20 AM UTC-8, Riz wrote: > > Hi Jeremy > > First of all, I did not intent to cast doubts upon the intend of the group > when I asked why are we averse to the idea of community documentation, was > merely pointing out inability to deliver an easy system. > > 2 points. > > 1. The platform of choice pending to be agreed upon, how about the > suggestion to ask the users to update their posts with a summary of their > answers?As I said already in a previous post, here is how I see it. > > 1. Pin to the top of the group, at least for some time, a set of > formatting and styling instructions. > 2. When a user asks a question and he gets an answer, he should > simply edit his question and add the answer according to the format. > > This workflow provides some advantages. One is the obvious delegation > of work. Whoever is collecting documentation wherever he wishes to, won't > it be easier if he can simply copy and paste these rather than writing it > up himself? > I understand the documentation macros and all, but community > documentation can be held to a different, simpler standards, right? Users > who asks questions and are able to follow instructions to resolve it, can > obviously write that up too. The only hurdle is it should be a binding > agreement in the community. > > 2. If you are strongly considering DISCOURSE, I would like to propose > reddit as a contender. Here is my points to consider reddit > > 1. It provides a forum free of cost. > 2. Creating an account is just a matter of creating a username and > password. If you do not plan to amass reddit points, you can have a > different reddit account literally everytime you log in. > 3. It has an inbuilt Wiki too. As a matter of fact we are collecting a > comprehensive list of plugins for TW5 in reddit wiki here > https://www.reddit.com/r/TiddlyWiki5/wiki/pluginsandresources. > Currently it has more than 200 plugins listed. > 4. You can opt-in for other options too, like email notifications. > 5. Provisions for Automoderation. You can set it to automatically tag > posts based on keywords, create weekly posts and stick it to the top of > thread etc. This would help with organizing the posts at a later point as > you can list posts based on tags. > 6. Last but not least, a casual internet user is much more likely to > come across TiddlyWiki in reddit over Discourse or google groups. Reddit > promotes its active and upcoming subreddits. Reddit userbase spans far and > wide. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/3fd7524c-2336-40f9-ab03-dc8d37b28251%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
