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| 52 | <div name="contentFrame"> | 52 | <div name="contentFrame"> |
| 53 | <h1>notYetAnotherWiki is not another wiki, at least not yet. It’ll be much more than that, eventually.</h1> | 53 | <h1>notYetAnotherWiki is not another wiki, at least not yet. It’ll be much more than that, eventually.</h1> |
| 54 | Author: onefang | 54 | Author: onefang |
| 55 | <p>notYetAnotherWiki is not another wiki, at least not yet. It’ll be much more than that, eventually.</p> | 55 | <p>notYetAnotherWiki is not another wiki, at least not yet. It’ll be much |
| 56 | more than that, eventually.</p> | ||
| 56 | <p>So to start with it’s not a wiki. It’s currently a way to create a web | 57 | <p>So to start with it’s not a wiki. It’s currently a way to create a web |
| 57 | site with CommonMark wiki markup, using git to update the content.</p> | 58 | site with CommonMark wiki markup, using git to update the content.</p> |
| 58 | <p>So it’s not a wiki, yet.</p> | 59 | <p>So it’s not a wiki, yet.</p> |
| 59 | <p>Next comes accounts and online editing of content with the web pages. It’ll then barely be a wiki.</p> | 60 | <p>Next comes accounts and online editing of content with the web pages. |
| 61 | It’ll then barely be a wiki.</p> | ||
| 60 | <p>The missing bit is talk pages, which requires some sort of archiving chat | 62 | <p>The missing bit is talk pages, which requires some sort of archiving chat |
| 61 | system built into the thing. Now it’s Yet Another Wiki.</p> | 63 | system built into the thing. Now it’s Yet Another Wiki.</p> |
| 62 | <p>Finally comes the magic, so it’s “not Yet Another Wiki”, it’s much more than that.</p> | 64 | <p>Finally comes the magic, so it’s “not Yet Another Wiki”, it’s much more |
| 65 | than that.</p> | ||
| 66 | <p>A web forum is basically a web based chat system with archiving. We got | ||
| 67 | that now, we can just say it’s a web forum as well. Just leave off the | ||
| 68 | wiki page bit.</p> | ||
| 69 | <p>Only difference between an instant messaging system and a web forum is | ||
| 70 | how fast it runs. So just make this fast, then we can call it an instant | ||
| 71 | messaging system.</p> | ||
| 72 | <p>Put email behind a web forum, you got a mailing list with a web archive.</p> | ||
| 73 | <p>An issue tracker is basically a wiki type page with the forum style | ||
| 74 | messages, and often an email control system. Only that last bit needs to | ||
| 75 | be added.</p> | ||
| 76 | <p>A lot of projects will put together all of these things to support their | ||
| 77 | users. Different systems, different accounts, same info. Too much “Oh, | ||
| 78 | that’s in the forum somewhere” on the mailing list or whatever.</p> | ||
| 79 | <p>notYetAnotherWiki puts it all together as a single system, with multiple | ||
| 80 | ways of using it depending on what the users want, and ways of organising | ||
| 81 | the useful info that makes it’s way into the system one way or another.</p> | ||
| 82 | <p>Someone comes into your chat system, asking for help, within minutes | ||
| 83 | people are helping out and come up with a working solution. After a few | ||
| 84 | other people turn up with the same problem, the existing conversations | ||
| 85 | are moved to the decumentation section, where the original participants | ||
| 86 | and others can polish it into proper documentation about solving what has | ||
| 87 | suddenly become a common problem. Every one knows where to find it, on | ||
| 88 | the one system. They can chat about it, on the one system.</p> | ||
| 63 | 89 | ||
| 64 | </div> | 90 | </div> |
| 65 | </main> | 91 | </main> |
| @@ -8,16 +8,49 @@ history: https://sledjhamr.org/cgit/notYetAnotherWiki/log/index.md | |||
| 8 | sourcecode: https://sledjhamr.org/cgit/notYetAnotherWiki/ | 8 | sourcecode: https://sledjhamr.org/cgit/notYetAnotherWiki/ |
| 9 | --- | 9 | --- |
| 10 | 10 | ||
| 11 | notYetAnotherWiki is not another wiki, at least not yet. It'll be much more than that, eventually. | 11 | notYetAnotherWiki is not another wiki, at least not yet. It'll be much |
| 12 | more than that, eventually. | ||
| 12 | 13 | ||
| 13 | So to start with it's not a wiki. It's currently a way to create a web | 14 | So to start with it's not a wiki. It's currently a way to create a web |
| 14 | site with CommonMark wiki markup, using git to update the content. | 15 | site with CommonMark wiki markup, using git to update the content. |
| 15 | 16 | ||
| 16 | So it's not a wiki, yet. | 17 | So it's not a wiki, yet. |
| 17 | 18 | ||
| 18 | Next comes accounts and online editing of content with the web pages. It'll then barely be a wiki. | 19 | Next comes accounts and online editing of content with the web pages. |
| 20 | It'll then barely be a wiki. | ||
| 19 | 21 | ||
| 20 | The missing bit is talk pages, which requires some sort of archiving chat | 22 | The missing bit is talk pages, which requires some sort of archiving chat |
| 21 | system built into the thing. Now it's Yet Another Wiki. | 23 | system built into the thing. Now it's Yet Another Wiki. |
| 22 | 24 | ||
| 23 | Finally comes the magic, so it's "not Yet Another Wiki", it's much more than that. | 25 | Finally comes the magic, so it's "not Yet Another Wiki", it's much more |
| 26 | than that. | ||
| 27 | |||
| 28 | A web forum is basically a web based chat system with archiving. We got | ||
| 29 | that now, we can just say it's a web forum as well. Just leave off the | ||
| 30 | wiki page bit. | ||
| 31 | |||
| 32 | Only difference between an instant messaging system and a web forum is | ||
| 33 | how fast it runs. So just make this fast, then we can call it an instant | ||
| 34 | messaging system. | ||
| 35 | |||
| 36 | Put email behind a web forum, you got a mailing list with a web archive. | ||
| 37 | |||
| 38 | An issue tracker is basically a wiki type page with the forum style | ||
| 39 | messages, and often an email control system. Only that last bit needs to | ||
| 40 | be added. | ||
| 41 | |||
| 42 | A lot of projects will put together all of these things to support their | ||
| 43 | users. Different systems, different accounts, same info. Too much "Oh, | ||
| 44 | that's in the forum somewhere" on the mailing list or whatever. | ||
| 45 | |||
| 46 | notYetAnotherWiki puts it all together as a single system, with multiple | ||
| 47 | ways of using it depending on what the users want, and ways of organising | ||
| 48 | the useful info that makes it's way into the system one way or another. | ||
| 49 | |||
| 50 | Someone comes into your chat system, asking for help, within minutes | ||
| 51 | people are helping out and come up with a working solution. After a few | ||
| 52 | other people turn up with the same problem, the existing conversations | ||
| 53 | are moved to the decumentation section, where the original participants | ||
| 54 | and others can polish it into proper documentation about solving what has | ||
| 55 | suddenly become a common problem. Every one knows where to find it, on | ||
| 56 | the one system. They can chat about it, on the one system. | ||
