[R-390] The Y2K Maintenance Addendum (was: Christmas Wish List)

[Roy Morgan]

At 03:52 PM 12/8/2005, Richard Loken wrote:
> > Why not use a wiki?
>Yes but when all is said and done, I want a binder containing a paper
>document with a table of contents, page numbers, and an optional index

Richard,

I agree.    Based on my limited experience with them, wiki's are good for 
large groups of either document development collaborators or interested 
users, or both.

By the way, what does "wiki" mean, anyway? Google says: "Wiki is sometimes 
interpreted as the backronym for "What I know is", which describes the 
knowledge contribution, storage and exchange function. ... "

Ok good, but what's a "backronym"?
Holy Acros, Batman, this stuff is COMPLICATED!

The process of gathering, editing and writing what may become an addendum 
is really not all that complicated.  It can be done one chunk at a time, 
and likely will not involve more than a very few people per chunk.

The next step, getting some folks to use it and make corrections/comments, 
can be done nicely with a simple web site document, it seems to me.  Lots 
of dialog, commenting and contributing can be done over this mail list, 
which is it's purpose, right?

Roy



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