Re: [mb-experts] WikiDocs

Robert Kaye wrote:

> 1) ANOTHER wiki?
> 2) How does this reflect on WikiDocs?

> 4) Are we switching course mid-stream AGAIN?

Maybe I'm oversimplifying, but these ideas seem like nice features for 
WikiDocs in general, rather than a separate system.  Can't we tack them onto 
WikiDocs *after* that's up and running?

> 3) We still need classical narrative docs to be written. If we can't find 
> volunteers to do this, I will do it myself. Less coding that gets done, but 
> I don't want to hack on another half-baked documentation system that 
> doesn't get our docs updated *now*.

I agree completely.  Q&A is good, but only for people who basically know 
what they're doing and need "hints".  I find that when I use a new system, I 
like to play with it for a bit, but then if I like it I want to go back and 
understand the basic concepts.  FAQs don't really work there.

> 5) Whenever I use these context sensitive help things, they NEVER help me. 
> I have build up an aversion to them.

They don't work because they're several steps removed from the problems 
faced by real users.  Plus they're full of marketese and a desperate desire 
to give the impression that everything's actually fine.  I'm hoping that the 
tighter feedback loop and lack of censorship of wiki could improve on this.

I'm planning to put in some effort on the wiki once I get my DSL connection. 
 But it'd help a lot if someone would tell me which pages to write.  
Writing pages on an ad-hoc basis might be very wiki, but it isn't 
particularly efficient or rewarding.  Just a list of pages that need writing 
or fleshing out would be good.  Preferably with the worst holes first on the 
list.

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