Re: Will the search in the tcl'ers wiki improve anytime?

On 2006-04-12, Eckhard Lehmann <ecky-l@xxxxxx> wrote:
Human beings are Eye-driven. Maybe you like the wiki as it is, but that
doesn't speak for the majority. I am not sure whether my opinion speaks
for the majority - but take a look at wikipedia and you know that this
site is more frequently used by "mainstream" people than wiki.tcl.tk.
If you say, thruthfully, that "ordinary mainstream people" are not
those who develop Tcl/Tk programs - imagine wikipedia would have the
style of wiki.tcl.tk. Do you think this site would be as frequently
used then, as it is today?

Visual style? Frankly, I don't think there'd be much difference.

However, if Wikipedia adopted the *organizational style* of TclWiki (ie.
communal anarchy as opposed to the illusion of professionally-edited
content), then yes, its usage figures would drop alarmingly. IMO,
a major part of Wikipedia's success is that it by-and-large meets user
expectations of an online encyclopedia (ie. you get concise and relevant
content with just a few clicks). The fact that its UI is fairly pleasant
to the eye is just icing on the cake.

So would slapping a pretty UI onto TclWiki make a difference usage-wise?
I'd say no.

So should TclWiki be revamped along the lines of the Wikipedia model?
Again, I'd say no.

So what, you might ask, am I suggesting? Well:

1. Leave wiki.tcl.tk well enough alone. It has its purpose in life as a
central location for the Tcl community to share thoughts, bits of code,
etc. Anarchy in action, stream-of-consciousness, and all that.

2. Beef up and "market" (for some definition of the term that I admit
I'm ill-positioned to define 8-) www.tcl.tk instead. Enable selected
trusted people to be section editors, responsible for adding and
maintaining material in each section to be relevant and useful to the
general programming community. Heck, I think a lot of material can
be cribbed from wiki.tcl.tk and various Tclers' blogs, but formatted,
proofread, and otherwise organized properly for general consumption.

Of course, (2) may already be in play, for all I know. 8-)

- Adrian
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