RE: Wiki as a documentation delivery system?

Subject: RE: Wiki as a documentation delivery system?
From: "Matt Horn" <mhorn -at- adobe -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 07:49:17 -0700

Geoff Hart wrote>
> So if you do use something interactive, make quite sure that
> you provide strong access control. The ideal is a something
> like a two-phase commit: in the first phase, someone provides
> comments and suggestions; in the second phase, you or someone
> you delegate vets the new material and decides whether to add
> it to the wiki.

If you make it difficult to add or collaborate, then it isn't a wiki. I
would guess there's an inverse relationship between the difficulty of
adding content and the amount of content added.

Matthew J. Horn
Sr. Technical Writer
Adobe Systems, Inc.
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