[pmwiki-users] Does this list inhibit development of good documentation?

[marc]

Kathryn Andersen said...
> On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 05:27:00PM +0000, Francis Casson wrote:
> > Many people (including myself) come to this list after failing to find the
> > answer we need in the documentation on PmWiki.org - or not understanding it.
> > 
> > I propose encouraging the following mailing lists ethic:  If you seek the
> > answer to a question and find it on the mailing list, then you should add
> > the question and answer to the relevant place(s) on PmWiki.org - This way
> > the documentation will improve, FAQs will need repeating less often, and
> > long term the traffic on this list will go down.
> 
> Lovely idea -- but part of the difficulty is in trying to figure out
> what the "relevant place" *is*.

:-)

Yup, wikis need the XP (extreme programming) task of 25% refactoring. 
They are certainly not self-managing, ime.

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Cheers,
Marc