Wiki madness

> To be honest, I wasn't thrilled with any of the many wiki 
> alternatives.

My experience with Wikis is that they are fairly terrible as a collaborative
tool, for the following reasons:

- the formatting is way too weak. You have to learn a strange pidgin html to
do simple things like bold etc. I am not even sure how you'd get an image
(e.g. a screenshot) onto an entry

- it's hard to comment on stuff. Comments become inline modifications of the
original material. When multiple people comment you get a total mess. When
the origninal material is then revised, forget about it!

- when content is created elsewhere (e.g. a graphics or wordprocessing app)
there's no way to "attach" those documents

- The ability to control access, as far as I can tell, is fairly minimal.
Yes you want an open process, but I bet you will want at least a little
control.

- And lastly, and most significantly, it's hard to keep up with changes.
Unread tracking, change notifications, etc are either absent or primitive.

Yes, it has the benefit of being implemented quickly but IMHO it doesn't at
all scale for this kind of project. 

I frankly have no idea how much time was spent populating it with the
original content but I wouldn't be surprised if it was substantial...

It's still early. Maybe we should consider a different tool.

FWIW/IMHO

- Pito


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