discuss: part of the review?
Subject:
Re: part of the review?
From:
David Merrill ####@####.####
Date:
15 Jul 2001 13:10:18 -0000
Message-Id: <20010715090954.C21337@lupercalia.net>
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 12:30:32PM +0100, Martin WHEELER wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Jul 2001, Jorge Luiz Godoy Filho wrote:
>
> > Lets go and write something... I've been sketching some nice stuff
> > with these 'WikiWiki' systems. Does anybody here knows them?
>
> Yes. I use them quite a lot for throwing ideas around and gradually
> assembling text for documentation purposes. With responsible members of
> a writing team you can assemble surprisingly useful stuff over time.
> I've always felt it would be good for the LDP to have a few around for
> subject specialists and other knowlegable user-folk to contribute to --
> in this way we could separate content from markup in the early stages
> of putting text together. (I think I even suggested it on this list a
> year or so back.)
>
> <dream>
> We could even have a WikiWikiWeb for each document we want to gather
> rapid update information on, and then delegate the doc maintainer to
> incorporate the information pulled together in this way into the
> marked-up version.
> Maintainer marks up text; subject specialist provides text; end-user
> contributes gotchas experienced. No annoying / time-wasting blurring of
> roles. If the published doc is felt to be out of date, then go read
> today's up-to-date dynamic version on the WikiWeb pages. And if the
> information you want isn't there -- ask for it to be provided.
> Cool.
> </dream>
>
> Anyone got a server we could set one up on, just to test the idea out?
> [I personally use PHP Wiki, but am not particularly fussed about which
> engine is used.]
I just got another hub last night and I'm going to put my Alpha on the
net soon. It's behind my firewall right now. Once it's up, you're
welcome to use it for an LDP wiki.
--
Dr. David C. Merrill http://www.lupercalia.net
Linux Documentation Project ####@####.####
Collection Editor & Coordinator http://www.linuxdoc.org
The idea that people know what they want is wrong. They need to be pulled
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