From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <2424953b-3f00-4f3e-a4c1-f02fa846b65e@v36g2000vbs.googlegroups.com> References: <2424953b-3f00-4f3e-a4c1-f02fa846b65e@v36g2000vbs.googlegroups.com> Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:06:41 -0800 Message-ID: <13426df11002231206p394b48f2ld97ba3346eeacb86@mail.gmail.com> From: ron minnich To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Re: [9fans] How 'bout a 9 USER site? Topicbox-Message-UUID: d92dbe16-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 I've just had someone here try to install reFit on her Mac. She got it done in spite of the wikis. There's so much wrong info out on the web now in the form of wikis that it was all virtually useless. I become more disappointed in wikis as the years go by. Even the Plan 9 wiki has instructions in it that are not quite right any more. If you're determined to do a wiki, perhaps you could do it by offering corrections and additions to that one, rather than a new one. A wiki is a thing separate and apart from a Plan 9 file system, and people have to go find it. Invariably, there are errors and problems and info gets out of date. It's not synced to man pages or other documents. I don't like to assume failure either but after the n'th time somebody has offered to put up a wiki and it's followed the same sad trajectory, well, I end up feeling that wiki is the wrong model. It's like the CADT model applied to support. The standard Plan 9 information-passing mechanism is the man pages. The standard script for "mount this stuff" are tools like 9fat and 9fs. Maybe the real problem is we need more scripts to help people along. It leads me to wonder if you could not glean what you need to know and create a script called '9usb', for example. Once it's in there as a script it's there for good and might even get maintained. Sorry to be so discouraging, I just think the wiki is not going to do what you want. ron