The main difference is that a wiki is more open, in that anyone can come in and continually refine and update pages at will. A good example of this would be if someone wrote a page up for a particular tool, and then the tool gets an update. The page's instructions may not be relevant any longer, but the article is often "stuck" talking about the old version - which may be confusing to readers who find it later who are trying to follow the tutorial.
Of course, this DOES open up the downsides of wiki's where people can put up ill written content, or just go around and destroy pages. Someone mentioned Wikipedia, which is a great example of the power of a wiki, but also has a large team of "guardian angels" which maintain the content against n'er do wells. (Just go look up the history for George W Bush or John Kerry on wikipedia to see this - people routinely knock out these pages and the angels have to restore them sometimes hourly.) One of my favorite wiki software packages is the Twiki package (Twiki.org) as it allows you to host multiple sites easily within on wiki, and allows regular users to create variables on the fly. It uses the variables in a hierarchical way to allow people to customize settings at various levels. (Simple irrelevant example: the entire wiki site may declare a background color, then declare a different one for the individual twiki web, then allow the individual user to declare their own.) This of course can also make it very confusing and overwhelming too. But just about any wiki would work... and really, it doesn't need to be overly complex. Let me do another round of "state of the wiki software" that I haven't done in a while, and see what I can find that will get us out of the gate quickly. Since there does appear to be at least some interest, I'll likely just get a domain and a cheap linux web host to host it, and maybe accept donations or run google ads if it takes off, to cover my costs. Give me a few weeks, and I'll see what I can pull together. D On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 15:03:52 -0500, Jorge Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I support such a wiki, and I would certainly contribute if not for great > sites like The Wavelength http://www.thewavelength.net and others that > already have most of the information needed to start an HL mod. The > subject of an HL wiki has been talked about before, but what purpose > would it serve which is not already served by existing websites? I'm > open to ideas. > -- > Jorge "Vino" Rodriguez > > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders > > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
