[pmwiki-users] PmWiki forum...

[Jan Erik Moström]

Reply to The Editor <editor at fast.st> 07-03-18 00:05:

>1) Despite the fact it is true all of us actively using the PmWiki
>mail list like mail lists (or we wouldn't be here) the 700 people a
>day visiting the PmWiki site are clearly not all on this list.  We
>have what, maybe 40-50 active developers sitting around and answering
>each other's emails.  What about the hundreds, or thousands that don't
>have time to plough though scores of PmWiki emails every day to keep
>up with things (probably the vast majority of users)...

And the solution would be to sit and scroll through hundreds of 
forums posts?

Sorry, I've seen this attempt to handle these things before and 
it doesn't work. Mailing lists aren't perfect either but they 
are better. But the best thing in my opinion is edited 
FAQs/tutorials etc ... unfortunately they come with a price, 
some people has to do the editing and it takes time and effort.

Letting anyone edit the pages? Of course ... but my experience 
is that the quality/structure of the pages deteriorates over 
time (on the other hand, having a group of editors have the risk 
of them losing interest in doing the edits)


                     jem