"skill2die4" == skill2die4 <skill2die4(a)secguru.com> writes:
Wiki is very different from the rest of the web
technologies, and
impressive too ;-)
I am currently looking at the possiblity of using wiki
for my
upcoming site, which would be like online documentation. However, i
am going crazy over the design stuff ... eg.. should i make this
category or a section , this and that...
So, my questions to peers who are already using wiki
is that how
difficult it is to change the orientation of your site once you get
started. What is the general practise : start small and keep
changing stuff , or make a well designed skeleton and then add to
it.
My 2 bits of advice:
* Start early. It's relatively easy to move pages and reassign
categories later on, if you want to structure things in another
way. I've found myself in situations where a page that started as a
small bit of information has grown to the point where it in fact
was more of a category. In those cases, I've split the page content
to severral subpages, added them to the same category. The original
page now contains the first paragraph from each of the subpages and
a link to the rest of the text. That works fine for me, as it's an
easy way of doing Top-down design.
* Set up a private wiki, where you can experiment with radical
changes. I have a similar setup, and i load a database backup from
my public wiki on the test installation every so often. By doing
so, it's easy to experiment on live data without risks.
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