Topic: What MC needs is a Wiki! (Read 1155 times)

sapnho · « **on:** March 22, 2004, 01:35:10 pm »

Using MC is like a discovery journey. That's the good side. However, sometimes it takes quite some time to figure out how to get to a certain result.
I am not sure how familiar Jim and Matt are with the wiki concept but for building up a dynamic knowledge base/manual for MC this would be ideal.
If you don't know what a wiki can do for you, look here: www.wikipedia.org.

Ben from www.netremote.org has also started to put together a wiki and I am sure it didn't take him more than two hours to set it up.

A wiki would have the advantage to better structure the vast know-how contained in this forum and in the brains of all MC users. And best of all, it is a work of this community.

How about it?

JimH · « **Reply #1 on:** March 22, 2004, 01:39:27 pm »

Maybe.

sapnho · « **Reply #2 on:** March 22, 2004, 02:00:58 pm »

Quote from: JimH on March 22, 2004, 01:39:27 pm

Maybe.

The Master himself responding to my humble thread?

I am awed!

urlwolf · « **Reply #3 on:** March 22, 2004, 02:27:01 pm »

Hmm,

the best reference is this forum, right now. The help system is the last place where I would search, so... are you suggesting to move the help system into a wiki doc? Or this forum? The problem is that the search system has to be up to par, and that's difficult. Wikipedia is so-so in terms of search efficiency, I think they use simple keyword matching. Same for this forum. Something more google-like would be a lot better.

In summary, can you elaborate?

sapnho · « **Reply #4 on:** March 22, 2004, 02:37:49 pm »

What I am suggesting to think about is to capture the knowledge of places like this forum on a wiki.
A wiki is fully searchable (like Google) and is basically a giant FAQ maintained by and for the users. The MC help file would still be there but all the good ideas that usually don't make it into a helpfile would be captured. The forum would also remain but everynow and then some good bits of threads would be copied onto the wiki.

What you end up getting is a great knowledge base.

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