From: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Let's get VM configs onto the Wiki.
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 14:28:12 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111124222812.840A8B852@mail.bitblocks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 24 Nov 2011 14:05:00 PST." <CAP6exYJu2-48wEwYTcTZrT7iWMuxMtfOqQ8UiAiEmNw6eMuZBg@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 14:05:00 PST ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> wrote:
>
> > But I am not a fan of Wikis. Usually a wiki ends up being an
> > unstructured collection of useful facts that can go stale as
> > it takes a lot of effort to keep it organized.
>
> Would be interesting if every wiki entry came with an expiration date,
> and entries just went away or no longer appeared. So much of what I
> find on wikis is completely wrong any more.
A wiki is fine for something like an encyclopedia which is
basically a collection of loosely coupled information, or as a
corkboard of research notes.
A handbook can start out organized. Everything can be put in
its proper place, easy to parallelize the effort and reorg is
easy (mostly just metadata reorg -- in wiki you will have to
do cut-n-paste between pages). See the online FreeBSD handbook
for an example.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-24 22:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-22 15:39 [9fans] Returning to Plan 9: Virtualization, Distributions Joel C. Salomon
2011-11-22 15:46 ` ron minnich
2011-11-22 15:56 ` Gabriel Díaz López de la llave
[not found] ` <CAL_gH73FUfzOdFg1HHMomr8_kubMwYvraXnkYUqQQ4hbzD33iw@mail.gmail.c>
2011-11-22 16:00 ` erik quanstrom
2011-11-22 22:57 ` Joel C. Salomon
2011-11-22 23:04 ` erik quanstrom
2011-11-22 23:21 ` ron minnich
2011-11-23 7:49 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2011-11-22 23:06 ` John Floren
2011-11-22 19:41 ` Jack Norton
2011-11-22 22:50 ` Joel C. Salomon
2011-11-22 23:00 ` Giacomo Tesio
2011-11-22 22:14 ` John Floren
2011-11-22 22:53 ` [9fans] Let's get VM configs onto the Wiki Lyndon Nerenberg
2011-11-22 22:58 ` erik quanstrom
2011-11-22 23:12 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2011-11-22 23:22 ` andrey mirtchovski
2011-11-22 23:22 ` andrey mirtchovski
2011-11-22 23:37 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2011-11-22 23:33 ` andrew zerger
2011-11-24 21:16 ` Bakul Shah
2011-11-24 21:25 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2011-11-24 22:05 ` ron minnich
2011-11-24 22:28 ` Bakul Shah [this message]
2011-11-27 0:14 ` [9fans] Returning to Plan 9: Virtualization, Distributions Ruben Schuller
2011-11-27 6:29 ` Jens Staal
2011-11-27 7:08 ` John Floren
2011-11-27 9:18 ` Lucio De Re
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