On Jan 14, 2006, at 9:29 PM, Pascal Bourguignon wrote: > To edit it in a collaborative effort, I feel that a wiki would be > easer. What about the wikipedia format? It seems smart and has a > nice look. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki > Installing it is trivial, and starting the collaborative work will be > as simple as pasting the questions under this format on the main page:
So the problem with a Wiki, from my point of view, is it's always going to be a much bigger pain to edit via a Web browser than with Emacs. If folks want to set up a Wiki to collaboratively draft questions and answers that's fine (and has been discussed before on this list) but I can't imagine that I'll be doing a lot of work that way. Of course if a bunch of folks go to town and collaboratively write a great FAQ on a Wiki, then that's great. Certainly the the Wikipedia is an existence proof that kind of collaborative document development is possible. On the other hand, a FAQ differs--to my mind--from an encyclopedia in that while the questions should stand alone, the FAQ is also a unitary document that should have its own trajectory and organization, and for that kind of writing, having a single file that I can muck around with in Emacs and grovel through with Lisp code is probably the best solution. That said, if folks feel that they are being held back from contributing by the current toolchain, they should speak up and we can try and make it easier for them to contribute. -Peter -- Peter Seibel * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gigamonkeys Consulting * http://www.gigamonkeys.com/ Practical Common Lisp * http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/ _______________________________________________ cl-faq mailing list cl-faq@lispniks.com http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/cl-faq
