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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. | ||