OpenEuphoria

Re: [OT] Euwiki

• Posted by Jason Gade <jaygade at y?hoo.?om> Jun 07, 2008
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Jeremy Cowgar wrote:
> Rywilly is the author of the wiki software so it's his choice. However, I'm
> not too excited about a discussions tab. It makes it difficult to see the page
> and discussion. Most successful wiki's I've ever used contain discussion at
> the bottom of the page.
> 
> Maintaining a successful wiki is actually hard work. When you have many
> different
> people contributing, everyone has their own idea of organization,
> categorization,
> etc... It's quite an art form. I would suggest that before we get too deep
> into
> loading up the new wiki, organizing, etc... that we look at a few well run
> wikis.
> Two really stick out to me:
> 
> <a href="http://c2.com/cgi-bin/wiki">http://c2.com/cgi-bin/wiki</a>
> <a
> href="http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki">http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki</a>
> 
> Those are three *highly* successful wikis. I would be interested if others
> have
> examples as well. I know someone will suggest wikipedia, but can I suggest we
> cannot compare to them? They have a *huge* volunteer staff. We should look for
> successful wiki examples that are maintained by very few people.
> 
> A wiki can be a very helpful thing but can get out of control and become a
> mess (spaghetti documentation
> ) very quickly. Instead of figuring out
> the right combination, let's borrow other peoples ideas.
> 
> --
> Jeremy Cowgar
> <a href="http://jeremy.cowgar.com">http://jeremy.cowgar.com</a>

Yup, I've at least seen the c2 wiki before. It seems as though they put
comments/questions/discussion at the bottom under a horizontal rule.

Is that a style we want to adopt? 

Such as if I made a comment that the -lint option should be called -strict
instead, or both, or whatever? Or should that stuff just stay in the development
list?

--
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple
system that works.
--John Gall's 15th law of Systemantics.

"Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming."
--C.A.R. Hoare

j.