OT: Tech Writers & Wikis

[Ron Miller]

I disagree. I think Wikis can be very useful and hardly dawdling--could 
actually save time. They can provide a central place to share tips and 
tricks, to announce code updates, share code snippets and other 
information useful to a team.

What's more when used with an environment like Sharepoint, you can 
upload code changes and doc updates and have all the information and 
announcements related to a project in a central place.

Check out this company: http://www.tractionsoftware.com/.

Ron



Whites wrote:
> For starters, to the guy at SFSU trying to learn how to write, take 
> another run at that sentence: "I am writing a white paper for my class, 
> and I'm searching for writers
> who use wikis."
> 
> I've been asked before what I thought about wikis in a software 
> documentation environment. I suspect that the only reason Anarchipedia 
> works at all is because there exists a large population of educated 
> types who are willing to contribute and who are able to do so because 
> they are writing their entries on someone else's nickel. Probably 
> university souls who would otherwise be preparing lectures or grading 
> some of the few papers that students still claim to write. Or maybe they 
> are just avoiding their tedious chores.
> 
> I'm dubious that folks in most development environments have the leisure 
> to dawdle around in a wiki when they have their own workloads to get 
> through. Or am I misunderstanding the charm of a wiki? It sounds like a 
> mechanism to convince other people to do my work.
> 
> will white
> 
> On Mar 18, 2007, at 5:51 PM, Diane Gaskill wrote:
> 
>> I am writing a white paper for my class, and I'm searching for writers
>> that use wikis.
> 
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> There is something fascinating about science.
> One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture
> out of such a trifling investment of fact. - Twain
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 
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Ron Miller
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