You can't convince everyone, but you don't need to. If you convince a few, that will get the ball rolling.
I would participate in whatever rev doc wiki is most popular. Someone mentioned there is more than one - are any of them being added to? And... it does not necessarily require experts to directly contribute. Non-experts and copy answers from this list over the wiki. Participating in the wiki will help non-experts become experts as they trod through the minute details of any given function or command. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Bovill Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 6:43 AM To: How to use Revolution Subject: Re: docWikis Hmmm... not going to convince you then :) If you have seen the progress of wikipedia over the last 2 and a bit years from unfunded nothing to one of the worlds most valuable multilingual encyclopaedias based on idiotically simple technology that could have been built in revolution in a month by a single developer, and based on the input of hundreds of thousands of unherdable cats, plus a few freaks, with nothing but an collectively organised skeleton of an editorial process... Try deleting a page on wikipedia or defacing it and see how long it takes to be replaces by all those "cats". Take a look at how many tiny contributions and corrections are posted every minute by people with "wives that would kill them" - the best sort :) There is an irc channel somewhere - which last time i checked was showing around 20 posts (ie modifications and new contributiuons) every minute. Paid dedicated centrally controlled editorial is not the only way to produce quality - social filtering and structured openess goes a long way in defined application areas. On 18 Oct 2005, at 03:06, Jim Ault wrote: > Of course, who decides what qualifies as good/excellent content.. > Expert > level, moderate, beginner, one example, two, five, .. fastest > algorithm, > easiest to write.. how to put pieces together to solve scenarios.. > catalog > the exceptions and bugs.. even to build a rudimentary decision tree > for > someone to follow to build an app.. > > All would be a very large task for several individuals. Add to the > mix that > the most accomplished contributors are advanced because they do > this for a > living which means they have no time for their own documentation of > projects, let alone building a knowledge base. > > In our little corner of the programming universe, I think that most > anyone > only has time to skim, collect some valuable tidbits, contribute > answers as > time and mood permit, then go on with our lives. > > As they say, "managing programmers is like herding cats", and that > is the > way it should be. I wish you good luck getting support. If I > decided to > follow this path and contribute, my wife would kill me. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
