[plug] Newbie Guide - The beginning

[William Kenworthy]

wikis can be very daunting to totally new computer users.

On a personal note, I think wiki's suck big time, but do suit some
(disciplined) groups - they dont suit everyone despite the hype of the
wiki evangelists.

BillK

On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 09:42 +0800, Senectus . wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 09:38:16 +0800, Evert van Dijk
> <evert at silver-sword.net> wrote:
> > Hi Arie (and plug)
> > 
> > You might want to look at putting a Wiki implementation (
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki_software ) up to allow people to
> > create and edit content, without you having to spend a lot of time
> > converting to html, you can spend time editing content instead.
> > We can cal it  - wikiplug :)
> > 
> > Other than that Good Job
> > 
> 
> There was a conversation on the wiki solution at the AGM, and too me
> it sounded like most believed that the wiki concept was too confusing
> for new users.
> 
> I still believe that it depends on the implementation of it, and the
> side that newbies will be using doesn't need to be complex at all.
> 
> But if we're going for simple, why don't we just use open office to
> write it out and convert it to pdf for the publication... can't get
> much easier than that...
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William Kenworthy <billk at iinet.net.au>
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