On 10/05/11 1:43 AM, Michael Gentry wrote:
Yeah, SO isn't a wiki.  It is a Q&A forum where answers can be voted
up/down.  The theory being that helpful answers will bubble to the top
of the replies so you don't have to read through everything.

Yes, I wasn't suggesting that SO replaces everything that a wiki does. I also 
don't believe that it replaces a user mailing list. But certain things (like 
the recent question about null dates in mysql) would be well suited to having 
greater visibility. And our wiki doesn't get much love from our users. Part of 
that could be about the difficulty of getting access, and part about the 
difficulty of knowing where to put things. A good FAQ should be fairly flat 
(unstructured), have easy to use tagging, a good search, and take less than 5 
minutes to create a new account and post an answer.


I need to look into DocBook more.

Please run the maven goals I created and see how it works for you. Then if you 
want lots of reading, the Sage Hill website has the best documentation 
available. And the best tool to play with editing the source is Oxygen/Author.


Ari


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