On Friday 01 June 2007 11:06:44 pm Christophe David wrote: > >> I'll keep my comments very short here. > > With all respect, I feel this "my wiki is bigger than yours" > discussion should be at least held somewhere else, or better simply > stopped. I agree 100%. This is pmwiki-users, not pmwiki-let's-bash-each-other's-work.
> > Trying not to add even more noise here: > > - People make the effort to install and run PmWiki because they find > the actual product meets their needs in the real world. Not because > its author tried to convince everyone the PmWiki he had in mind before > making it was going to be better than whatever other wiki. > > - I did install ZAPwiki in order to make my mind. The "automatic > installation" did not do all its magic for me and I got several errors > I had to fix to let it just run. After that, I failed to find > anything that would motivate me to look at it even further at this > stage. Probably a convincing demonstration would help a lot more than > endless discussions. > > - Most important point to me (and I guess some others might agree): > PmWiki works great for me. Its author provides exceptional support > and keeps making the product better and better. Again, I agree 100%. PmWiki has been one of the best software applications I have ever used. > > But the documentation is inevitably somewhat behind the current state > of the development. This prevents me from taking full advantage of > some of the features, and causes me frustrating losses of time. Then > it causes losses of time for people in this list who are kind enough > to answer my questions about what I did not find in the documentation. There are some of us who are actively working to improve the documentation. Have a look at the FAQ: http://pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/FAQ I feel it's much improved over it's previous state. Unfortunately, some of us have no php knowledge so we must contribute in other areas. > > Wouldn't all the time spent on this thread be better used to update > pmwiki.org with the latest features and to provide working examples of > how to use them ? > > If all the principles advocated by its author are correct, ZAPwiki > should reach the point where people will actually **like** it and > start actually **using** it in the real world it instead of just > talking about it. I feel that discussion of other wiki's should cease altogether and we should focus on "our wiki". > > But we are not up there yet. And in the mean time, I would rather see > the available energy of the PmWIki "community" used to make PmWIki > even better, including its documentation, than to try to convince > someone that some concepts are not as great in real life as they look > at first glance. > > Christophe > Respectfully, Ian MacGregor _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
