[GLLUG] How can a Wiki be used?

[Charles Ulrich]

Meant to reply to the list as well...

Frank Dolinar wrote:
>   Hi, folks,
>     I hope that Penguicon exceeded your wildest expectations.

Indeed it did and I've already been there twice!

>     I'm looking at wiki software from the point of view of understanding 
> all the things it can do.  Further, I'm trying to see how a wiki might 
> be used in ways other than something like Wikipedia, for instance.
>     What interesting uses can you think of for a wiki and why do you 
> think it would be valuable in that role?

I use a wiki at home to take notes on virtually everything. On it, I
have notes for software, hardware, and programming languages. There are
maintenance records for my cars, notes taken for classes, scheduling, an 
address book, random ideas, you name it. I've come to think of it as my 
second brain because my first one evidently came from the factory with a 
damaged chip or two. Fairly often I'll write pages on some topic never 
to open it again. Or, in the equally likely case, they just become 
obsolete or irrelevant. But, better to document something and not need 
it than the reverse.

Right now I'm using a wiki called PikiPiki written that I've hacked
slightly to add/modify a few minor behaviors.

> -- Frank
> 
> P.S. My conference in Milwaukee was extraordinary.

Glad to hear it!

-- 
Charles Ulrich
Ideal Solution, LLC -- http://www.idealso.com