Hi Richard, Thanks for your comments, really! 8-))
I would like to develop this project in another place as here too many other things are happening. Google Groups seems btw to me quite antiquated. I'd rather have some forum like xenforo. One might have to search for specific threads or it should be all in one thread. Also it is of such importance that it really deserves it's own place, just like the Dev, Group. "I really think that distributed writing can work but it does require people to ditch some of the old assumptions about authority and hierarchy." Well I have no problem with that being an old anarchist, meaning authority and hierarchy are seen by me as hampering development und mutual understanding. *Ni Dieu ni maître!*When I suggets one or more editors I do not mean it in the old sense, you describe!! But there should be some general understanding that we e.g. use the same style in our tiddlers. If we start out a tiddler with a preamble describing a certain entry level for example then everybody should do that the same way to make a coherent visual impression on the reader. He/She knows what to expect beforehand. We want to appeal to as many potential users as possible. Another little example Everybody should use the same font. Whole stylebooks have been written to make newspapers readable and a tiddler is just a page from a journal, as far as reading is concerned. Using specific jargon should be carefully handled and only used if the level of experise of the novice allows it. Using on the third page of a manual the word "div" is useless, unless you are quite sure that the reader knows what a "div" and its function is. I certainly do not call you idealistic nor naive! But there things that have shown to be working since Gutenberg and why not use that expertise. Wished I had more time, but Now I am really of to bed otherwise she might divorce me. 8-)) Salut! Ed ======= Op woensdag 8 juni 2016 07:19:38 UTC+2 schreef RichardWilliamSmith: > > Hi Ed, > > Why do you say that the work should be done elsewhere, other than this > group? This is the only place that everybody in the community regularly > refers to, so it seems the logical place to start. > > The call for a user guide / improved documentation is one that has been > regularly repeated over the last several years - we need to actually start > something and the plainest way to do that is for the new users who have > questions to collaborate with the more experienced users who may have some > answers and put something together that is at least of //some// use. > > I really think that distributed writing can work but it does require > people to ditch some of the old assumptions about authority and hierarchy. > > A traditional model might have a 'master' draft document under the control > of an editor, to which other people would submit contributions for > approval. A much more 'messy', distributed approach might have 20 > contributors, each maintaining their own working draft and drawing freely > on each other's work in order to 'evolve towards' a finished product. > > The benefit to doing it this way is that nobody ever needs permission or > approval to contribute. There is also never any need for disagreement > because there is never a problem with maintaining multiple versions. > > Perhaps it's idealistic/naive to suppose that this can work, but there is > only one way to find out. > > Regards, > Richard > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/7e43f433-3a45-4fd1-85dc-68d74cc3c25b%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
