That's completely valid but it comes back to Andreas' original question - where to put stuff?
Wikipedia works because there is a dedicated group of people working on the daunting task of classifying all human knowledge.
Maybe the package universe can be the backbone of a Squeak ontology. If current and relevant materials are easy to find not only will newcomers flock to Squeak, people who have been around for a while will be far more productive.
Modern IDEs have come a long way in integrating documentation and providing clever and useful code-completion features. I would love to see this in Squeak.
Steve
On 4 Mar 2009, at 08:55, Eliot Miranda eliot.miranda@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Andreas Raab andreas.raab@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