Wiki - Forum love

Matthew East mdke at ubuntu.com
Mon Oct 17 15:29:25 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 12:22 -0300, Mauricio Hernandez wrote:
> Matthew East,
> 
> Now I am starting to understand why the use of
> pages/subpages/subpages/subpages/...
> 
> However, I hope you see that Wikis were built for "intuitive
> documenting" and so, having subpages, or even not using CamelCase will
> lead (if not already is) to some chaos because those people used to
> "wiki concepts" are familar with few basic documenting rules
> (CamelCase for as many docs as possible and avoid subpages, keep the
> site in a "horizontal layout" so docs are easily automagically-linked
> and remembered) and those who are not used to wikis simply either do
> not understand or just make mistakes or missuses of it, and therefore;
> give more "admin work" to keep docs sane :)
> 
> Please tell me how wrong I am on this perception so I can truly
> understand, and also feel free not to use "sugar on top" :D

This has got a little off topic, which was better interaction between
the wiki and the forum.

As for your comments, I don't really understand fully. We can
continue/clarify off-list if you like.

Matt
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