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 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> 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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