Andreas wrote:
> [...]
> I really don't know if that's the problem. The greatest advantage of a
> wiki is imho how easily people can add their contributions, which in
> turn makes them a lot more connected to the particular community.

Sure, I agree with you. That's the positive aspect of a wiki. The
question is, how to minimize the negative aspects of a wiki. I've now
already seen several people saying that links were removed, changes
that have been made to improve the pages were revoked, and that it's
hard to find information in the wiki. Unfortunately, I don't have
solutions for all of these problems, but there is clearly something
that could be improved. Just to add one experience I've made: when
searching for SDB articles, I don't like how the search results are
presented. Here is an example searching for "yast" (DE-version):

SDB:YaST Installationsquellen erzeugen (7719 Byte)
2: SDB:original_name: /sdb/de/2004/02/yast_instsrc.html
3: SDB:original_title: YaST Installationsquellen erzeugen
7: [[Category:SDB:YaST|Y]]
22: ... YaST. <code>Plain Cache</code> und "echte" <code>YaST</code>
Quellen.
[...]

The old SDB and the way how search results were presented there, well,
from my point of view it was much more concise and clearly arranged. As
a simple user, I am not interested in "SDB:original_name", or
"SDB:original_title", or "[[Category:SDB:YaST|Y]]" - that's just
unnecessary information at that point (it might be useful information
for a developer etc., no doubt). Well, just an observation...

Cheers,
Th.

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