From a008f7325282d533c8e34377416ae8c9f0166f1d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: dvs1 Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2024 02:32:31 +1000 Subject: More explaination about the project. --- index.HTML | 32 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- index.md | 39 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- 2 files changed, 65 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/index.HTML b/index.HTML index 2bcb624..637748a 100644 --- a/index.HTML +++ b/index.HTML @@ -52,14 +52,40 @@

notYetAnotherWiki is not another wiki, at least not yet. It’ll be much more than that, eventually.

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notYetAnotherWiki is not another wiki, at least not yet. It’ll be much more than that, eventually.

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notYetAnotherWiki is not another wiki, at least not yet. It’ll be much +more than that, eventually.

So to start with it’s not a wiki. It’s currently a way to create a web site with CommonMark wiki markup, using git to update the content.

So it’s not a wiki, yet.

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Next comes accounts and online editing of content with the web pages. It’ll then barely be a wiki.

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Next comes accounts and online editing of content with the web pages. +It’ll then barely be a wiki.

The missing bit is talk pages, which requires some sort of archiving chat system built into the thing. Now it’s Yet Another Wiki.

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Finally comes the magic, so it’s “not Yet Another Wiki”, it’s much more than that.

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Finally comes the magic, so it’s “not Yet Another Wiki”, it’s much more +than that.

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A web forum is basically a web based chat system with archiving. We got +that now, we can just say it’s a web forum as well. Just leave off the +wiki page bit.

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Only difference between an instant messaging system and a web forum is +how fast it runs. So just make this fast, then we can call it an instant +messaging system.

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Put email behind a web forum, you got a mailing list with a web archive.

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An issue tracker is basically a wiki type page with the forum style +messages, and often an email control system. Only that last bit needs to +be added.

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A lot of projects will put together all of these things to support their +users. Different systems, different accounts, same info. Too much “Oh, +that’s in the forum somewhere” on the mailing list or whatever.

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notYetAnotherWiki puts it all together as a single system, with multiple +ways of using it depending on what the users want, and ways of organising +the useful info that makes it’s way into the system one way or another.

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Someone comes into your chat system, asking for help, within minutes +people are helping out and come up with a working solution. After a few +other people turn up with the same problem, the existing conversations +are moved to the decumentation section, where the original participants +and others can polish it into proper documentation about solving what has +suddenly become a common problem. Every one knows where to find it, on +the one system. They can chat about it, on the one system.

diff --git a/index.md b/index.md index ed7c82b..38b9a86 100644 --- a/index.md +++ b/index.md @@ -8,16 +8,49 @@ history: https://sledjhamr.org/cgit/notYetAnotherWiki/log/index.md sourcecode: https://sledjhamr.org/cgit/notYetAnotherWiki/ --- -notYetAnotherWiki is not another wiki, at least not yet. It'll be much more than that, eventually. +notYetAnotherWiki is not another wiki, at least not yet. It'll be much +more than that, eventually. So to start with it's not a wiki. It's currently a way to create a web site with CommonMark wiki markup, using git to update the content. So it's not a wiki, yet. -Next comes accounts and online editing of content with the web pages. It'll then barely be a wiki. +Next comes accounts and online editing of content with the web pages. +It'll then barely be a wiki. The missing bit is talk pages, which requires some sort of archiving chat system built into the thing. Now it's Yet Another Wiki. -Finally comes the magic, so it's "not Yet Another Wiki", it's much more than that. +Finally comes the magic, so it's "not Yet Another Wiki", it's much more +than that. + +A web forum is basically a web based chat system with archiving. We got +that now, we can just say it's a web forum as well. Just leave off the +wiki page bit. + +Only difference between an instant messaging system and a web forum is +how fast it runs. So just make this fast, then we can call it an instant +messaging system. + +Put email behind a web forum, you got a mailing list with a web archive. + +An issue tracker is basically a wiki type page with the forum style +messages, and often an email control system. Only that last bit needs to +be added. + +A lot of projects will put together all of these things to support their +users. Different systems, different accounts, same info. Too much "Oh, +that's in the forum somewhere" on the mailing list or whatever. + +notYetAnotherWiki puts it all together as a single system, with multiple +ways of using it depending on what the users want, and ways of organising +the useful info that makes it's way into the system one way or another. + +Someone comes into your chat system, asking for help, within minutes +people are helping out and come up with a working solution. After a few +other people turn up with the same problem, the existing conversations +are moved to the decumentation section, where the original participants +and others can polish it into proper documentation about solving what has +suddenly become a common problem. Every one knows where to find it, on +the one system. They can chat about it, on the one system. -- cgit v1.1