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Posted by Stewart Gordon on 10/20/22 11:48
David Segall wrote:
> Stewart Gordon <smjg_1998@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Now that it seems decided that AllMyFaqs isn't going to be revived
>> as a wiki, has anybody undertaken to start a new web authoring
>> wiki?
>
> I think that this would be tremendous waste of the time and talents
> of the major contributors to this group. There is more than enough
> information on the web and in text books about the routine aspects of
> web authoring. If someone posts here because they don't know what to
> look for or they are too lazy to look then another web authoring
> site won't help them. A beginner or a casual HTML user like me can
> usually answer their question.
http://allmyfaqs.net/
AllMyFAQs is not:
* a replacement for newsgroups
Yet you seem to think that any new wiki would have to be a replacement
for newsgroups and nothing more.
Take a look at
http://webtips.dan.info/
Only a small handful of the pages deal with answering the kinds of
questions that people might ask in a web authoring newsgroup. And it
also goes into depth beyond that of the average HTML tutorial.
OK, so that isn't a wiki, but there's no reason that people can't write
articles for a wiki that are conceptually similar to these pieces. And
wikis have been used many times over for a lot more than answering
questions that are often asked on newsgroups. For some successful (so
far) examples, see
http://www.wikipedia.org/
http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi
> The experts should be encouraged to write essays on "xxx is harmful"
> such as <http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/www/click.html> or some
> specialist aspect of the craft that interests them like
> <http://nrkn.com/backgroundWidth/>. The latter is extremely helpful
> if you need it and unlikely to appear in a general authoring Wiki.
Unless somebody adds it.
> Unfortunately, the most frequently asked question in this group
> cannot be answered by a static web site. We need a site to which I
> could submit a document and it would tell me why it renders
> "correctly" in Internet Explorer but not in Firefox or Opera.
How about
http://validator.w3.org/
? :-)
Stewart.
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