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Mamewah wiki...WOW Saint added it!!!
Taborious:
I love the wiki.arcadecontrols.com site; great thing, and all the questions I see for mamewah I was thinking what is the possibilty of someone starting a mamewah wiki. This way it would take some of the burden off of minwah to help every that posts here and have a place to send the noobs and or someone trying something different. Or does the app change too much that a wiki would become out of date or irrelevant too quickly...???
Minwah:
I don't know much about Wiki's but maybe someone could advise if they are a potentially good way to do documentation? The editing method looks like it might be useful for updating by a select few people.
As always my documenting of my latest beta's isn't progressing well so anything that makes it easier is welcome...
Taborious:
Well a wiki is just community access documentation, so anyone can update. So if someone knows how to do something they simply update/add a section to the wiki for that process. The update happens immediately and is available for all to see as soon as committed by the author but of course can be removed or changed by a moderator. Basically, you, minwah, don't have to write all of the documentation or keep answering emails or posts you can simply direct people to a specific section in your wiki site.
Now that being said you would need someone to host the wiki site and I don't know if Saint would be interested in setting up a section in the wiki.arcadecontrols.com specific for certain apps. The arcadecotrol wiki is very general just here are the front ends you can use not here's how you use them which is what the mamewah wiki would need to be...
pmc:
Why not just build out this page? I haven't been following the wiki planning discussions (what's OK and what's not and what should go where), but it seems appropriate to extend the existing page content a bit futher. But maybe that starts something that can't be managed...
Personally, I stay with an older version of Mamewah(0.96?) because I know that upgrading/reconfiguring/troubleshooting/tweaking will result in some dedicated learning time. I don't really have that time. Having a better documentation/FAQ/How-to site would be really helpful to me.
Wikis can be really good for this because the community can participate in keeping the information current. It's theoretically unlikely to get stale. If you have a big enough and dedicated enough community (and I think Mamewah does), it could work really well.
-pmc
Taborious:
Continueing deeper on the arcadecontrols wiki site is fine if Saint doesn't mind. I'm not sure if he wants that wiki getting that specific or if he wants it to remain general information. I know there are some other wiki moderators out there, SirPoonga comes to mind. I will post a message in the wiki discussion section referencing this post and have them chime in with their 2 cents...
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