Dennis, I concur fully.
It could work very well or be a mess. Some form of control (committee)
for addition of content may provide consistency and structure. If this
gets too big, then its not collecting small things, so defeats its purpose.
steve
On 13/06/11 6:31 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
Computers, hypertexts, and collaborative structures like Wikis are powerful
instruments for progressive refinement and disclosure. I would love to see
much more of that.
My experience suggests that authoring for progressive disclosure is rather
difficult, since people navigate and associate their conceptualizations
differently.
Just the same, I'm all for it!
- Dennis
PS: An example of difficulties has to do with on-/off-line help files. (First,
the off-line files should have ways to go off-line for more/newer detail rather
than it being an exclusive choice to have one or the other.) The search is
weak and if consistent terminology is not used everywhere the same concept is
being referenced, it is easy to fail to find something that you may even know
is there from a previous encounter. And we know that a Wiki can be terrible
for users unless it is well-curated. I wonder what answers there are for all
that. I merely recognize the problems.
-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Edmonds [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Sunday, June 12, 2011 11:09
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Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Collecting small things in the Wiki
On 13/06/11 2:35 AM, David Paenson wrote:
Students don't have
the patience, the time or indeed the need to learn about all aspects of the
program, they just want to produce nicely looking documents in as short a
time and with the least effort possible.
This is also my co-workers. So I have been collecting short instructions
for them. In their case even shorter than your summary. I think the
organisation of the information is important. I think of layers, the
very simple common things on top because no one wants to look for these
and more and more detail as you dig deeper. A wiki is well structured
for this.
steve
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