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Hi John You gave me a bit of a shock there - for a moment I thought you were reporting a "stack overflow" problem on FIXwiki! Anyway, thanks for drawing our attention to http://stackoverflow.com/. I was not familiar with it. I agree that it is a very neat application of wiki technology to a Q&A forum. As I mentioned in my original posting, I am certainly not proposing FIXwiki as a replacement for this Q&A forum. I see FIXwiki as two things - a reference tool for the FIX specification and a repository for user contributions to the specification. I tried to summarize this in the "Using FIXwiki" section on http://cameronedge.com/fixwiki/. I think the Q&A forum would feed into FIXwiki. Maybe many answers would refer to relevant pages of FIXwiki as part of their response to questions. One of the problems with our current structure is that there is no convenient way to refer to part of the FIX specification other than copying and pasting extracts of the spec into answers. Similarly, as I mentioned in my original posting, I imagine that FIXwiki pages would refer back to key discussions in this Q&A forum. The danger with most wikis is that they can become a chaotic mess if there is no overall structure behind them. I imagine that most of us have seen examples of that happening. With FIXwiki I tried to address this problem by structuring it around the FIX specification itself. See the "Structure of FIXwiki" section on http://cameronedge.com/fixwiki/. Thanks for the reference to stackoverflow - I do like it - clever use of technology and a very useful resource for developers. John > JC - have a look at http://stackoverflow.com/ > > this is a very smart way to combine a discussion forum and a wiki in a > way that concentrates knowledge in a useable way. [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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
