"skill2die4" == skill2die4 skill2die4@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.