[Gnu-arch-users] Re: future of the wiki

[Douglas Philips]

On Wednesday, Aug 27, 2003, at 18:00 US/Eastern, Zack Brown wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 06:19:39PM -0400, Miles Bader wrote:
> > So while I the idea of community-maintained web pages, I cringe at the
> > thought of the home page being a wiki.
>
> Why not have the web page be an arch-ive? Then newcomers could learn 
> more
> about arch by using it to put what they learned back into the web site.

Noooooooooooooooo.

It was bad enough that I joined the old mailing list. Had no idea why 
there was no traffic. Figured the project must be dead. Went looking 
into the archives to see if there had been anything, and found that the 
list had moved.

TWiki (Wikis) in general are designed to be easy. I've read through the 
hello world example doc about three times so far. If I had to use arch 
to get started on the website, it'd just never happen. The reason I'm 
attracted to arch is to be able to work offline for a day or two at a 
time, and yet still have a central repository for backups and for 
coordinating with my cohorts. But I just don't see how using arch for a 
wiki replacement makes any sense. Nothing about arch has to do with 
presentation, yet a wiki is all about presentation and being able to 
use _any_ barely functional web interface to read and update it.

Just my buck two-fitty,
        <D\'gou