Hi Dan - the difference between Forums, blogs and wiki"s was significant - but really they are increasingly merging. Wikipedia for instance has a discuss feature for each wiki page (article) - which is basically a Forum attached to the page, other tools offer similar.
Permissions allow fine grained control of which sections are open and which are under editorial control - so there is no real difference there between wiki and Forum. There is only one real difference and that is the way time is treated - both the list and a Forum deal with time as the way the contributions are indexed - with a wiki the key indexing concept is the term defined in the title of the page. This means with a well "designed" wiki - you do not have to read through a historical list and merge all the posts to find your answer. It is a collaborative document. A Forum is a segmented email list on the web and offers minor advantages over - mainly to those old fashioned folks that like to minimise email traffic (rather than search and filter). You get most of that by using: http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.ide.revolution.user If the aim is to enhance the current documentation with community contributions - then a time based metaphor is not going to achieve that (that is without some serious hacking - ie a forum thread for each Transcript term... which basically ends up as a wiki with associated time based discussion thread in any case). My interest is in documentation associated with a repository of shared code - such as a library. For this you need more than a wiki - you need a wiki linked to the code - and both integrated into the RunRev IDE. _______________________________________________ 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
