[OGDev] wiki wednesdays.

[Kake L Pugh]

On Thu 26 Apr 2007, Dominic Hargreaves <dom at earth.li> wrote:
> That would be excellent if you can make it.

OK, I've signed up!

I thought I'd give a brief description of OpenGuides and then talk
about the wiki things that we've found to be useful and those that
we've found to perhaps be less useful.  (I don't want to just go stand
up there and go "hi, we made a thing, it's dead cool"; I want to give
people a reason to want to listen to me.)  It would be great if people
could chime in here with their own experiences.  I'm thinking here of
the aspects of wikis that are "standard", not necessarily things
specific to OpenGuides - the talk needs to be accessible to people who
have no idea about OpenGuides.

Useful:
 - the rapid publishing cycle - see a mistake, click the "edit" link, fix
   the mistake, click "save", you're done
 - many eyes make light work - even the most trivial comment becomes useful
   as a page builds, e.g. "They also serve Leffe" - not worth making a page
   on its own, but very very useful when added to an existing page.

Less useful:
 - wiki markup, as is currently being discussed in the other thread
 - lack of structure; again, as discussed in the other thread, I think
   our approch to structured data is one of our strengths

Anyone else got anything to add?

Kake