Dear Sirs, I.m an Assistant Professor in computer science at Link�ping University, Sweden and I am studying the PHP manual with regards to the user comments section. If you feel you have time and knowledge please take the time to answer a few questions:
How important to the manual would you say the annotations by users are? Have you in the past or are planning to rewrite the manual to include in user annotations in the text, changing the manual due to user contribution? Is this common, regular, seldom? To what degree does the annotations in the manual link to or replace discussion forums? What other manuals do you know of that use the same type of annotation mechanism? What is your feeling regarding using a wiki instead, like the emacswiki, where users can change the text directly? Where the addition of comments even across many parts of the manual or focused on certain parts? What do you think this signifies (for either case)? -- Erik Berglund, Ph.D., www.ida.liu.se/~eribe Associate Professor Usable Ubiquitous Research Group (U2) Depart. of Computer and Information Science, IDA Linkoping University, Sweden Tel: +46 13 28 24 93, Fax: +46 13 142 231
