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To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 14:28:12 -0800
From: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>
Message-Id: <20111124222812.840A8B852@mail.bitblocks.com>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Let's get VM configs onto the Wiki.
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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.