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    • Re: Wiki lock-in?

    Posted by Rick Sapir / Tiki for Smarties posts: 3665 United States

    > I'm concerned that I'll spend a lot of time and effort building a wiki, only to discover
    > that I really should have been using some other wiki, or some other methodology. For
    > example, if I had decided to build my documentation as ordinary html, I have my choice
    > of hundreds of different editor and management tools.
    >
    > So my question is, what's the wiki (and Tiki in particular) world's answer to this conundrum?


    > >
    > > I want to replace the menu with a regular page-- In my "menu page" I can then easily create links to the rest of my wiki pgs.
    > >
    > > Anyone have thoughts on how to do this.
    > >

    My first question would be.... Why do you want/need a wiki? The wiki "methodology" is based on several assumptions:

    • You want to have multiple contributors
    • You want to use a simplified syntax
    • You want users to edit pages using nothing more than their browser
    • etc.


    My second question would be.... Why choose Tiki as your wiki-based solution?
    (This one I can answer....) Remember that Tiki is much more than simply a wiki.

    My third quesiton would be.... What types of "documentation" are you going to deliver? Is his something that will change often? Do you want to allow visitors to read/upadate/comment the pages? Do you want different levels of access?



    HTH,

    -Rick
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    Posted by ddyer posts: 3


    > My first question would be.... Why do you want/need a wiki? The wiki "methodology" is based on several assumptions:
    > *You want to have multiple contributors
    > *You want to use a simplified syntax
    > *You want users to edit pages using nothing more than their browser

    I'm contemplating using a wiki to record the "how to" manual for my web sites and computers; replacing
    dozens of ad-hoc notes-to-self and recording a large amount of lore that currently exists only in my
    head.

    The attraction for me is that a wiki is easily editable, searchable, browsable hypertext. I'll probably
    be the only contributor, and the only user, for the forseeable future. My concern is that after 10 years
    or so, Tiki will seem as quaint as Hypercalc does today, but my data will be trapped there.

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