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["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>]

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Subject: [permaculture] To wiki or not to wiki
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 19:41:14 +1100
From: jedd <jedd@progsoc.org>
Reply-To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>

 Hi Rich,

 ] ... I'd also like to back up Grahams point that if we
 ] get a wiki going, we will want to migrate most discussion onto the wiki.
 ] The soon we get experience with using a wiki the better.

 I'm not so sure about this.  Yes, it may be good to have the
 discussion on a wiki, but wikis are painful (you have to be
 net connected for starters).  Email lists that are archived gives
 people (well, me) optimum access to discussion information, and any
 person that comes along afterwards can read the archives.  Of course
 they fall down when people top-post, fail to snip, fail to change
 subjects, fail to initiate new threads when they should, etc - but
 wikis can be just as easily corrupted by ignorance - and a list of
 geeky types is less likely to have such bad habits.  </optimistic>

 Anyway .. my main point there is actually that because a wiki is
 not where we're aiming at, using one at this stage might either
 distract or misguide or both.

 Unless of course we are aiming at just a wiki, in which case .. what
 are we talking about?  Just install it and populate it (well, just
 about) and away you go.

 I think we really do need to work out what we're aiming at, and I
 suspect that screen shots (input forms and results pages) would
 make this a lot easier for people, including me, to get heads around.

 Jedd.