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Re: A documentation wiki, anyone?

Subject: Re: A documentation wiki, anyone?
From: "Jerry Muelver" <jerry -at- hytext -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 07:15:20 -0600

I was intrigued this evening to run across an article involving the
use of OpenOffice Writer with a wiki designed specifically for
documentation.

The article is at
http://applications.linux.com/applications/05/01/10/232235.shtml?tid=49&tid=13

DokuWiki is at http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki:dokuwiki

.....> I thought this might be worth looking into, especially for smaller

groups and for Web-based products.

Wikis are great real-time documentation tools. I started using intranet wikis for contract documentation development projects in 1999. Software engineers take to them eagerly, and even managers chimed in with suggestions. The projects were multi-national, which used to create review, revision, and translation bottlenecks. But the wikis allowed us to get instant review and approval for milestones and changes, no matter where the reviewers were. They are definitely the bee's knees for collaborative documentation efforts.

Disclaimer: I am so enamored of wikis that I developed an editing and documentation production tool, WikiWriter at http://hytext.com/ww , to bring internet-compatible wiki production methods to standalone (no server required) and offline projects.

---- Jerry Muelver

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