Not quite a wiki - Faq-O-Matic was the system I was looking at, which
is a hybrid of the two ideas. Unfortunately, I can't seem to get it
working now, and in the process created some files which now don't seem
to want to go away. Grrr.
Anyway, the idea was to have some control over who edits but have a lot
of people who could contribute easily. If someone can make it work
without messing it up it is a nice system, but that's just my opinion.
CY
--- Stavros Macrakis <stavros.macrakis@verizon.net> wrote:
> > Cliff started to put together a Wiki, but we also didn't finish
> that.
> > Would people be more comfortable with a FAQ?
> > (I have to confess I would prefer to have a FAQ as long as someone
> > wants to maintain it.)
>
> The advantage of a Wiki is that it is easy to add to it.
> The disadvantage of a Wiki is that it is easy for anyone to add to
> it.
> Another disadvantage is that information is presented in too
> fragmented
> a way.
>
> The advantage of a FAQ is that it is edited.
> The disadvantage of a FAQ is that it requires an editor.
>
> Isn't there some intermediate solution?
>
> I like Wiki's easy access, but it would be nice to have *a little*
> more
> control, with some sort of user registration and vetting/editing
> workflow.
>
> I like Wiki's compartmentalization of subjects (one editing unit per
> subject), but I don't like its compartmentalization of presentation
> (one
> subject to a Web page). It would be nice to have more than one
> editing
> unit presented per Web page.
>
> I like FAQs' editorial unity. There is no way around the work
> required
> to preserve this, but perhaps there is a way to have different levels
> of
> vetting in the same hyperdocument.
>
> Does anyone know of a better tool? And of servers which will let us
> run
> it?
>
> -s
>
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