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FIXwiki is a wiki that contains much of the FIX specification as well as providing an area for user contributions. It is currently hosted by Cameron Edge at http://www.cameronedge.com/fixwiki/. However, if the FIX community find it useful and worth pursuing, I am happy to donate it to FPL. Please take a look at it, use it, and share your opinions. It is completely free. FIXwiki is a product, so it could be argued that this posting should be to the Product Discussion Forum. But its real relevance is to the whole FIX Q&A process, which is why I decided that it really belongs here. This Q&A forum has been one of the key elements of the FIX collaborative process since the early days of the protocol. Back then there was no such thing as a wiki but nevertheless FIX has evolved using wiki style collaboration assisted by tools such as this forum. This forum, along with its search capabilities, is a repository of invaluable information about the interpretation of the FIX specification. It is a natural complement to the FIX specification documents. For example, if someone is unsure of some aspect of the protocol, maybe the exact meaning and intended use of a particular FIX field value, they would start by consulting the FIX specification documents. If still unsure, they would then typically search postings to this forum using appropriate key words. If still unsure, they would post a question to this forum, which would normally be answered by other members of the community. Once answered, that query and its answer are a matter of record on the forum, which may be useful to others in the future. This is a model that has served the community well. Some would say “it ain’t broke so don’t fix it”. However, I think that it is worth considering a wiki since that software is well proven and has been specifically designed to support our type of collaborative process. I am not proposing abandoning this forum. A forum like this is great for discussions and I expect that FIXwiki postings would contain many references to Q&A discussions on this forum. However, I think that a wiki arguably provides a better repository for clarifications, interpretations and examples of the FIX protocol that come out of such discussions. Going further, a more radical idea might be to consider moving the formal FIX specification itself to a wiki style database – rather than having it in the form of a Word or PDF document. But that is probably another debate. Anyway – take a look at FIXwiki yourself and see what you think. [You can unsubscribe from this discussion group by sending a message to mailto:[email protected]] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Financial Information eXchange" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/fix-protocol?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
