On Thu 26 Apr 2007, Dominic Hargreaves dom@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