> for anything new one has to go looking. > > In contrast, everything on this list arrives in my inbox. I see > everything, choose what to read, respond where I feel the urge. If it > was a wiki, I'd be battling to keep up, I'd probably just fall away.
General rant aside, I think that's the point that gets me the most. I want the technology to *tell* me when something interesting happens (for sufficiently wide definitions of "interesting"), not have to go look for it. I have plenty of other stuff to do, and having to poll the wiki to find out if there's something interesting going on is IMHO a step backwards. I like the idea of user created documentation, but maybe there's a way to notify this list with a summary of updates every so often. That would ameliorate some of my crankyness. > A site like http://isay.js.id.au/ can be good for documenting stuff (or > publishing one's opinions), and http://www.php.net shows how well > documentation based on a wiki can work, Note that both are heavily and systematically edited.
