I'm cool whatever you decide Dan.

One argument for the seperate USER Wiki, is that many of us feel that
what we write may not be "worthy" or is not good enough for the main
boltwire site.  I for one am hesitant to put something on the official
boltwire site, becuase:

1) I only partially understand what I am writing.
2) It may already be in the BW docs, and I don't know where it is.
3) I think someone else has better ways of doing things than my idea,
so I don't write my idea.

The second reason is that a WIKI and NOT A CMS, really grow
differently.  The wiki should become self organizing over time.  A CMS
you kind of have to set up the structure of the content beforehand and
contributors have to try to figure it out.  A Wiki is encourages you
just to write.  This is useful when the structure isn;t actually
known.  I think each of us has a different idea of how the
documentation/help should be structured; but we all want the same
contents.  A lot of the content is on the BW site already, but not
where I expect to find it.  And, someone else wants the same content,
but they expect to find it in a place different from where I expect!
The wiki pages need to be able to be tagged for a category, and
include a comment/response area, and I think that is enough to get it
going.

Just my vote, set up a wiki,  see what comes of it.  Anything good
that comes out of it, you migrate those good sections to the main BW
site.  If nothing good comes of it, then we tried.


As for tutorials:

I think what BW is missing, is not the tutorial, but a "guaranteed to
work first time" examples, for a standard BLOG, and a one page
complicated form (different fields, required fields, validation, and
field calcs) that logs its data and reports on the data.  My issues
have been that the downloaded app doesn't work out of the box.  If
these apps worked guaranteed, and then there was a DRAFT NOT-OFFICIAL
DOCUMENTATION wiki page, I think folks would jump in to provide
detailed documentation.  That info could then be transformed intro an
official wiki page.

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