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Re: documentation going away

Subject: Re: documentation going away
From: Dossy Shiobara <dossy -at- panoptic -dot- com>
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 18:37:16 -0500

On 1/16/12 6:18 PM, Lauren wrote:

I have a scary prediction that may even be in place now. I think that companies will hire technical writers to document the content in forums. Hiring managers may probably say, "All of the support documentation is in the forums, you just need to clean it up."

Yes, this model already exists. It's called Wikipedia. The upside is a tremendous, quasi-useful resource, which turns the 4+ billion documents available on the Internet into half-baked reference material. The downside is that it requires tens of thousands of editors to accomplish such a task, and it's only as accurate as the original sources the information is extracted from.

The buzzword for this is "content curation" ...
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