stef mientki wrote:

> Mike Hord wrote:
>> What I'm trying to push it to be used for is a repository of information
>> which is currently scattered and unfindable.  Example:  one of my
>> colleagues wrote a good document about proper grounding practices in
>> industrial IEEE 1394 applications.  It was checked into our corporate
>> document management system, where it sits, unused. No one knows where
>> it is or how to find it.  It can't be found by casual browsing, or even
>> by a text search, because all that system has for indexing is two
>> 32-char strings for a descriptor.  So really, the only person who knows
>> where that doc is and how to find it is him, and he already knows that
>> information. 
> 
> I don't think a wiki is the solution, simply because all links are added
> manually !

I kind of agree. For a wiki, you have to structure your thoughts, and then
put it into the form of a wiki. Almost nobody writes in wiki format, so
that's a translation process that probably almost nobody will make after
the original document has been written. And if no document has been
written, it's probably even less likely that someone sits down and puts his
or her thoughts into written form just to put it in a wiki.

I'd probably rather see that the already existing "database" of internal
components gets indexed (not the descriptors, but the contents) and a
search engine is available for that. This can't (or shouldn't :) be that
difficult.

Gerhard

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