Wikis as Open Source Documentation Tool Not Very Useful?
Apr 21st, 2006 | By Tom Johnson | Category: DiscussionIf you’ve got an open source project driven by many different contributers, you may be thinking that a wiki would be the perfect way to enable the multiple contributers to create the help file. According to one author, wikis are bad news. Read the post at http://www.alittlemadness.com/?p=5.
Does anyone have any positive experience with wikis, besides wikipedia?
If you have no idea what a wiki is, google it.
Well, I don’t know if you’ve ever tried it, but a wikis is a great way for collaboration and our web site, I think, is proof that it works. We’ve been up for more than a year, 24×7, and we have contributors from around the world. Our site is based on open source software, TikiWiki. I’ll let you decide if you like our content.
I think the author of that article is talking specifically about open source doc projects which get very little support or funding, not about wikis which are great tools. Sometimes when everyone can contribute, no one does, but that’s not the fault of the wiki.
The STC Carolina Chapter is starting to use wikis as a way to collaborate on the re-design of their web site and on program ideas for the year ahead. Collaboration and ready-access are both key.
–Bill Albing
editor-in-chief
KeyContent.org
I liked this site, it’s neat. Good job! Would you please also visit my homepage?