If you look back you will see on the main group a lot of discussion of how to arrive at better "documentation". I have been heavily involved in some of that. In the last few months there have been two major attempts to supplement documentation via Reddit & StackExchange. The first is stalled. The second goes on on, though slowly.
Its entirely obvious that whilst Google Groups is fine for ongoing discussion it is* absolutely the worst for being able to find past things*. Which is a shame as many answers needed are buried in its history. FWIW, my own viewpoint has changed quite a lot from when I first wrote about the inadequacies of documentation--especially it poorness for newbies. NOW I think that the biggest issue is the FRAGMENTATION of knowledge about TW, NOT lack of documentation per se. The main documentation page IS fairly minimalist because its largely just one person--Jeremy Ruston--writing it and I believe he wants to concentrate on fundamentals. Its not always, in all parts, user-friendly, but its better than nothing. Also, partly all this is a consequence of what TW itself is. Considering how many people are using TW its remarkably difficult to get to see fully complete TiddlyWiki's. But that's because (1) a lot of them are off-line; and (2) what is on-line is not well indexed. Google searches don't bring many of them up (for a bunch of reasons, some of which could be improved upon, I think, to all our benefit). *IMO, you would likely be more effective either trying to bring what is known (& published somewhere) together, OR concentrate on one or two areas where you have skill and provide more in-depth tutorials & suchlike. *I truly think you will find that trying to fix TW documentation, as a whole, solo will not work. In the short time I been here I have seen 5 or 6 failed attempts at that already. So whilst I'm really in favour of what you are pushing for, I'm now more in favour of "joining-up-the-dots" --because I think it has a chance to work. I also think replete examples teach much, even in small numbers. As do in-depth tutorials. There is MUCH information around. Its just hard to find it. So, possibly a modest aim would deliver a more sustainable result? Just my two cents. Very best wishes Josiah -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWikiDev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywikidev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywikidev@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywikidev. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywikidev/45ee922d-fa2d-4ba2-ae19-8220cb76b45b%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
