On Sun, 14 Oct 2001, Mark Rages wrote:
>
> On Sun, 14 Oct 2001, Kevin Conder wrote:
>
> > Can you look at it off-line (besides grabbing everything with
> > wget)? Can you print it out (besides one page at a time)? Can you search
> > it (besides using google on-line)?
>
> Wiki will lose Wabi-sabi if taken offline. ( http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WabiSabi )
Some people don't have a persistent 24x7 connection to the
Internet. Personally, I pay for my own Internet access and am using a
dial-up connection. Sometimes it's just more convenient to read off-line
documentation. For example, I sometimes read documentation on a laptop
while riding the train.
> > How about using DocBook instead? (http://www.docbook.org) That way
> > you can publish it into HTML, PDF, etc. Publish an HTML version and put it
> > on-line that floats your boat...
> >
> Your suggestions confuse me. Document formats and authoring tools don't
> address the problem that Wiki solves.
Perhaps Wiki isn't the best solution then. I don't see how Wiki
addresses some basic needs:
1. Able to be viewed off-line.
2. Able to be conveniently printed.
3. Able to be indexed and searched.
Wiki might be appropriate for Weblogs but I don't think it works
for technical documentation. Look, you asked if this would be an efficient
way to write such documentation. I don't think it is.
-- kevin at kevindumpscore dot com
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