[PLUG] WHAT is the question? Re: To wiki ...

[Russell Senior]

Then there is Smallest Federated Wiki:

  https://www.wired.com/2012/07/wiki-inventor/

I like this quote in particular:

“If people don’t control their own infrastructure, they get needy,” he
says. They’re at the mercy of service providers who can disappear, impose
rules that constrain creativity and/or make it difficult to backup content
that you’ve created. “It’s good to simplify things, but they shouldn’t be
simplified in such a way as to make the user helpless.”

On Sat, Sep 15, 2018 at 1:10 PM, John Sechrest <sechrest at gmail.com> wrote:

> So a shared wiki does this.
> As does Evernote or OneNote or google Keep.... And each of them have
> benefits and limitations.
>
> So the vast number of tools that try to replace scraps of paper is an
> amazing collection, and yet we still keep trying to get it more
> organized/better etc. There are whole conferences about this very issue of
> collaborative information management.
>
> Some people use Trello to track project data. Some people use github wikis.
> Some use shared google docs. There are huge collaborative, management tools
> with lots and lots of bells and whistles, which are also often complex and
> brittle.
>
> And there are very very very simple wiki-like things like
> https://tiddlywiki.com/ tiddlywiki.
> As people have been asking, you need to know who is writing, who is
> reading, and what the constraints on that conversation are trying to make
> progress on.
>
> I find it much harder to get people to use a common tool than I do to set
> up a tool. so this seems like a sociological problem instead of a software
> selection problem.
>
>
>
> On Sat, Sep 15, 2018 at 1:03 PM Russell Senior <russell at personaltelco.net>
> wrote:
>
> > The specific thing I had in mind was writing stuff down on little scraps
> of
> > paper.
> >
> > On Sat, Sep 15, 2018 at 6:15 AM, Richard Owlett <rowlett at cloud85.net>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > On 09/15/2018 07:28 AM, Russell Senior wrote:
> > >
> > >> Yes.
> > >>
> > >
> > > OK ;/ What might it be?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >> On Sat, Sep 15, 2018 at 3:53 AM, Richard Owlett <rowlett at cloud85.net>
> > >> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> There are multiple carriers of information on the internet.
> > >>> Mailing lists and USENET groups stress timeliness.
> > >>> Wikis by nature can be more in-depth but can suffer from edits from
> > edits
> > >>> by anyone independent of qualifications.
> > >>>
> > >>> I repeat my question. Is there an alternative to wikis.
> > >>> The question is explicitly community and/or topic agnostic.
> > >>>
> > >>>
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