[LCtalk] Manuals vs WIKI

[Rainer M . Picha]

Hello,

I just want to join the partly emotional (which is good) discussion 
about the documentation for LanBox and LC-Edit.

As I wrote technical and usermanuals many years ago I know how hard it 
can be to write a good manual (what I obviously did, as many customers 
agreed upon). The point is, I think, not to have a good manual, the 
point is, to have the right (=needed) information at your fingertips!

So I want to raise again the Wiki-Pedia "thing".

I think it would be great to have a WIKI, where - at the beginning - all 
necessary information can be found in a clearly defined strukture, 
having always to it a task called "examples" where examples for various 
applications can be found, carefully step by step documented, and where 
anybody of us users and freaks can edit and improve this documentation. 
This will make information easily available to anybody of us and will 
take off quite a workload of Fokko

I suggest to have this WIKI in a secure "room" so anybody who has a 
Lanbox gets (chooses) a password to logg in, just to make sure that only 
users can edit information and not anybody who is just lucky to get 
there.

I know, this task was raised a few month ago, but I think its worth to 
thinking again as it is a "burning point" by now. And yes, it is hard to 
find the right information easily at the moment.

The forum helps a bit, but I think a WIKI-Style infocenter is much 
easier and better to utilize.

Best regards to all of the Lanbox-Society :-)

Rainer