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