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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> |