discuss: WIKI (fwd)
Subject:
Re: WIKI (fwd)
From:
Edward Cherlin ####@####.####
Date:
17 Mar 2005 18:39:31 -0000
Message-Id: <200503171043.23932.edward.cherlin@etssg.com>
On Thursday 17 March 2005 10:25, Stein Gjoen wrote:
> Edward Cherlin wrote:
> > I agree that I wouldn't want my HOWTO edited directly by
> > just anybody while my name remains on it. But I would love
> > to have a structure containing the latest versions of the
> > docs (read-only) together with a structured space for
> > comments and additions, so that I could decide which ones to
> > incorporate and when. This would be a great help to me, and
> > an even bigger help if I had to hand off the work to someone
> > else. It would also help us deal with seriously out-of-date
> > or abandoned HOWTOs.
>
> I support this view too.
>
> A wiki-sidebar for public commenting would be an idea, could
> this be set up as a test?
>
> Regards,
> Stein Gjoen
Sounds promising.
Another thought: A MirrorWiki would give me a place to accumulate
minor updates without having to create a new version for each,
so that users could have the latest information.
--
Edward Cherlin, Simputer Evangelist
Encore Technologies (S) Pte. Ltd.
The Village Information Society
http://cherlin.blogspot.com
