discuss: editors dead?
Subject:
Re: [discuss] editors dead?
From:
Andy Oram ####@####.####
Date:
28 Nov 2006 15:27:51 -0000
Message-Id: <1164727631.4967.16.camel@localhost.localdomain>
If I understand the issues here, the question of whether to use a wiki
doesn't answer Machtelt's original warning, which is that there is
hardly anyone to do professional (or professional-style) vetting and
editing of material.
Wikis reduce the overhead that comes with the need to contact people and
exchange documents, but as pointed out here, it presents its own
management problems, and no one is sure whether a document is
"finished." (Of course, nowadays document are updated continually
anyway.)
I'm not a good one to talk, because I've been able to invest very little
time editing, but I'm a reader who cares about quality.
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