On Thursday 05 August 2004 16:17, Chris Cannam wrote: > > 1. I don't like the word "wiki". I like the word "wikiwiki" even less. I > don't know where it comes from
It's hawaÃan for "quick". See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiWiki (the "History" section) for more info. > 2. GluingWordsTogether in English is ugly and must be stopped. Wikis are able to display links with normal spaces. > 3. This probably depends on how easy your wiki software makes it to do > different things, but a lot of wikis (particularly older ones) have many > pages with things just piled up on top of one another, as if people are > happy to append but less happy to edit. This makes for a big mess. > Alternatively, pages that have clearly been edited all over the place but > do not have an apparently linear order of editing also unnerve me. Can't disagree with that. Wiki scales well on the number of documents, but not on the size of individual documents. More than a couple of pages long is reaching. > 5. Finally, as I said, most of the wikis I've encountered in work contexts > have been introduced by technical people who just thought they seemed like > a good thing. No surprise here. The reason our wiki has worked so well on our intranet is because a team of people maintains it every day. Otherwise it would have died exactly the same way. > > I don't do real-time chats, web fora, or blogs either. > > I generally don't either. Perhaps because I got so used to email and > Usenet early on. Likewise. Though I'm reading blogs and find the idea of blogging somewhat tempting :-). -- Guillaume. http://www.telegraph-road.org ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by OSTG. Have you noticed the changes on Linux.com, ITManagersJournal and NewsForge in the past few weeks? Now, one more big change to announce. We are now OSTG- Open Source Technology Group. Come see the changes on the new OSTG site. www.ostg.com _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-devel
