On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Andreas Raab <andreas.raab at gmx.de> wrote:

> Igor Stasenko wrote:
>
>> There is a wiki page, already dedicated to it
>> http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/1799
>>
>> Or , maybe its worth create a new page 'Profiling in Squeak' .. or
>> give it more appropriate name
>>
>
> Now up at http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/6122
>
> Which reminds me: I had forgotten how much I hate the Swiki. It is ugly,
> horribly conflated, and effectively unusable.


Wikis are like gardens.  Untended they grow like weeds.  Unless one has a
writership with an active minority of editors, who spend time trying to
reorganize the wiki as it sprawls one may well end up with something
effectively unusable.  But as a form for organizing growing reference
material IMO they can't be beat; look at Wikipedia.  That is a superb wiki.
 The VisualWorks wiki was pretty good until its lack of spam protection and
lack of long-term hosting killed it dead.  Couldn't we have a community
project to reorganize the wiki?  Its the right form, its just a little
overgrown right now.


> Should we replace the damn thing with a community blog instead?


Different form for different uses.  The Squeak daily news works as a blog.
 I can't see how a blog would scale to hold the reference material for
Galaxy Squeak.


 I think this might be a better way of dealing with the information overload
> - you get dated, tagged entry and if we keep this open for pretty much every
> member of the community (using the "standard" username/password from the
> Swiki) we could use it much the same.
>
> I'd be more than willing to write up my post as a blog article instead. I
> just don't have a blog and even if I had I doubt many people would use it. A
> community blog could be a nice, lively place to post your thoughts in a bit
> more organized manner and would make an attractive target for people who
> just want to know what's going on in the world of Squeak.
>
> Cheers,
>  - Andreas
>
>
>
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