On Thursday 28 August 2008 16:38:36 Les Mikesell wrote: > Tim wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 08:45 -0500, Les Mikesell 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
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