[hpsdr] wiki dicussion page purpose (was Re: Red links in the wiki....)

[Richard Ames]

On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 17:27 -0400, John Ackermann N8UR wrote:
> ***** High Performance Software Defined Radio Discussion List *****
> 
> [ Speaking from personal experience, not on behalf of anyone. ]
> 
> My take on the "Discussion" page is somewhat different.  I think it is 
> normally intended to be metadata -- as a place to discuss the page 
> itself, not substantive discussion of the topic underlying the page.

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I agree!

Consider this tree of pages:

HPSDR (main page)
   Receivers
      Mercury
         Components used
         PCB
         Firmware
            discussion
         Development Ideas
            discussion
         Development Schedule
            discussion
         Manufacturing Plan
            discussion
         Manufacturing Schedule
            discussion


Since all the pages are evolving entities, the discussion pages become a
commentary on a discussion. You can see the discussion progress by
clicking the history tab.

A wiki is NOT intended to be a static thing. When the articles mature
you can create a book, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Books and
a book I created in about 20 seconds:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ariconte/Books/BookExample 

Think of what a good wiki could do for the HPSDR project....

Regards,

Richard.


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