Sven Vermeulen <swift <at> gentoo.org> writes: > On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 03:17:33PM +0200, Kristian Gavran wrote: > > Why reinvent the wheel?!? > > Gentoo has a really nice wiki: <http://gentoo-wiki.com/Main_Page> > > A wiki is more of a documentation system than a knowledge base. I think some > KBs could very well employ a wiki as back-technology for writing the > articles. But a KB is more strict in its writing: it can have a fixed layout > (like "title, synopsis, environment, analysis, solution" [1]), allows for > additional metadata (keywords, references to other articles, point-system > per query, ...) and focuses more on its search technology than on the > writing.
I believe that a wiki can serve as a knowledge base. There are wikis out there that allow for fixed layouts and user defined metadata such as you describe above. There are also wikis that can divide up into "webs" to facilitate different environments such as a user-driven documentation area and a formal only developer posting allowed area. In addition, wikis can provide access control to allow only developers to post to to certain "webs" and/or specific wiki pages. I realize the gentoo wiki already exists, but I know that http://www.twiki.org supports everything I'm mentioning.. Just trying to make gentoo even better :) Thanx! Carter -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
