RE: Wiki as a documentation delivery system?

["Simon North" <Simon -dot- North -at- quintiq -dot- com>]

Matthew Horn said: 

> If you make it difficult to add or collaborate, then it isn't a wiki.
I
> would guess there's an inverse relationship between the difficulty
of
> adding content and the amount of content added.

Absolutely! If you're going to have gatekeepers and vetting, you must 
just as well use web pages on an intranet/extranet. The whole
attraction 
of a wiki is the LOW threshold, and there is an increasing trend
towards
WYSIWYG editing interfaces to make it even easier. Put any kind of
control 
in the way and you discourage contributions (I actively encourage
people 
to create personal entries where there are no rules at all). 

Simon North 


Simon North, Technical Writer.
Quintiq Application Software BV
's Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands


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