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Subject:RE: What are the latest tools From:"Gordon McLean" <Gordon -dot- McLean -at- GrahamTechnology -dot- com> To:<techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Tue, 27 Mar 2007 15:03:12 +0100
Wikis can be good. I use them as a starting point, a source, of info which I
can then chase up, check, clarify, distill etc etc. The fact that it's so
easy to post a page to the Wiki makes the development guys much better at
doing it UNPROMPTED!
A customer facing wiki could be a good thing too, but it's not a replacement
and would probably need policed. Our internal wiki is for internal use only,
nothing from it should leave without being sanitised, presuming it leaves
the wiki at all.
Gordon
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Subject: RE: What are the latest tools
A good point. Too often "use the Wiki" becomes a substitute for organized
documentation. It's easy to have a big list of issues and no description of
actual procedures regarding the project. I can think of at least one help
authoring tool that suffers from this wikifiction...
> A better question would have been, "What best serves the needs of our
> customers?" Best asked before ticking them off by pursuing some wacky
> wiki idea.
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