Your one poorly implemented experiment went bad so all wikis are bad? Good logic that...
Wikis are not forums. They can't be replaced with forums. Some wikis do have forums as an extra module however to form a complete solution. Forums are about discussions. Wikis are about collaborative documents. The two are not the same.
In our multiple well-implemented wikis, we have hundreds technical and non-technical users that have no issues with wiki notation. Furthermore, good wikis have tools that allow conversion from HTML to wiki notation. Spend 5 minutes learning the notation or turn on the online help and learning wiki notation is a non-issue. It certainly is much faster to type after that 5 minutes of learning than HTML.
Wiki spam is no different than forum spam. Same problem, same solutions.
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Re:Wikis are a joke
Posted by: walt-sjc on June 29, 2005 10:37 PMWikis are not forums. They can't be replaced with forums. Some wikis do have forums as an extra module however to form a complete solution. Forums are about discussions. Wikis are about collaborative documents. The two are not the same.
In our multiple well-implemented wikis, we have hundreds technical and non-technical users that have no issues with wiki notation. Furthermore, good wikis have tools that allow conversion from HTML to wiki notation. Spend 5 minutes learning the notation or turn on the online help and learning wiki notation is a non-issue. It certainly is much faster to type after that 5 minutes of learning than HTML.
Wiki spam is no different than forum spam. Same problem, same solutions.
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