{"id":75,"date":"2009-06-02T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kristau.net\/blog\/?p=75"},"modified":"2009-06-02T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-02T12:00:00","slug":"the-wiki-way-final-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kristau.net\/blog\/75\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wiki Way: Final Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing I\u2019ve presented in this series has been particularly earth-shattering.  Wikis are just another Web-based tool out there for collecting and presenting information.  Wikis are well-suited for some types of data, ill-suited for others, and there is a huge gray space in between.<\/p>\n<p>Some examples of well-suited purposes are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Encyclopedias.<\/li>\n<li>Reference manuals.<\/li>\n<li>Infrastructure guides or references.<\/li>\n<li>Collaborative writing or other creative projects.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some examples of ill-suited purposes are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Large databases with somewhat static or homogeneous formatted data.<\/li>\n<li>Content Management System (though it could work, just not ideal).<\/li>\n<li>Web log or blog.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With proper research and some time taken to think about your community and purpose, you may find that a Wiki fits the bill.  Just keep in mind that it will become an on-going project requiring a fair amount of care, feeding and community cultivation.  Be ready to dedicate the necessary time to get it off the ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing I\u2019ve presented in this series has been particularly earth-shattering. Wikis are just another Web-based tool out there for collecting and presenting information. Wikis are well-suited for some types of data, ill-suited for others, and there is a huge gray space in between. Some examples of well-suited purposes are: Encyclopedias. Reference manuals. Infrastructure guides or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[195,218,219,223],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","category-writings","tag-technology-2","tag-wiki","tag-wiki-way","tag-writings-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kristau.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kristau.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kristau.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kristau.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kristau.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kristau.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kristau.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kristau.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kristau.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}