Anne Wilson wrote:
Just the same way things work now except that there would be less
repetition and once a pattern of showing useful info in the wiki
emerged, people would start to look there first.
Just like how people use Google instead of asking about something on a
mailing list... ;-)
Google is about as far from a specifically collated and indexed set of
information as you can get. If you don't already almost know what you
are looking for you are going to have a hard time sorting it out. And
worse, old, incorrect information never dies there. A mail list
provides timely/dated information but the questions and incorrect
responses make it difficult to find the existing content. A wiki takes
a little extra effort to maintain, but allows each person who uses the
content to tweak it for correctness and their use cases.
A wiki takes a *lot* of effort to maintain if you want it to stay relevant.
Anne
Agreed, but there are a lot of people who can each contribute small
portions - wikipedia being a large-scale example of the potential. It's
really less effort than repeating things in an email list once a
structure is established - at least for things that have 'right' answers.
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