On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 11:18:17PM +0000, Keith Edmunds wrote: > On Mon, 5 Mar 2007 10:07:03 +1100 > Kathryn Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Lovely idea -- but part of the difficulty is in trying to figure out > > what the "relevant place" *is*.
> The problem, I think, is that wikis use themselves to document (quote > dogfood mantra), which is great if you know what it is you're trying to > find out (if you see what I mean). What I wanted, however, was the > equivalent of a reference manual that I could read from start to finish. > No, I wouldn't remember all the detail, but I would remember what was in > there, so that subsequently I could lookup the detail of how to accomplish > a given task. > > The most frustrating thing with pmWiki is that it is very powerful, but > there is no ONE place to go to find the detail. Instead there are many > pages of information, each of which cross-reference others (in wiki > style). At the start, we just want to read it linearly. I thought that PmWiki/DocumentationIndex was a good place to start. At least, I found it useful myself. Where does it fall down? But while Cookbook/Cookbook is *supposed* to be the equivalent to the PmWiki/DocumentationIndex for recipes, many people don't add their new recipes to that page, either because they're scared off because the page has a password (which is "quick", btw), or because they don't see the need. Kathryn Andersen -- _--_|\ | Kathryn Andersen <http://www.katspace.com> / \ | \_.--.*/ | GenFicCrit mailing list <http://www.katspace.com/gen_fic_crit/> v | ------------| Melbourne -> Victoria -> Australia -> Southern Hemisphere Maranatha! | -> Earth -> Sol -> Milky Way Galaxy -> Universe _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
