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You can literally go see for yourself how the WYSIWYG editor works these days. I suspect it's come a long way since the last time you checked it. My bigger que
by jfrunyon 5y ago
You can literally go see for yourself how the WYSIWYG editor works these days. I suspect it's come a long way since the last time you checked it.
My bigger question though is why the average user is important. Most large companies have employees whose entire job is ... knowledge management. If they can't figure out how to write wikitext then maybe they're not a good fit for the role?
- macintux 5y ago> My bigger question though is why the average user is important. Most large companies have employees whose entire job is ... knowledge management. If they can't figure out how to write wikitext then maybe they're not a good fit for the role? If your wiki limits its contributors to experts, you're doing it wrong.
- jfrunyon 5y agoRegardless of limitations, the vast majority of edits tend to be by those whose job it is.
- macintux 5y agoI'm struggling to remember any job I've had where documentation was primarily the realm of tech writers. Certainly none of the large companies. One startup had a dedicated tech writer but engineers and evangelists still wrote much of the documentation.
- aaron695 5y ago> If they can't figure out how to write wikitext then maybe they're not a good fit for the role? This is absolutely wrong. It is correct for Wikipedia. Because you don't want idiots aka Twitter users in there. For almost any other wiki it's hard to get anyone to give a fuck to actually enter data and harder still to update data. Even in imaginary company's who pay people to 'Wiki', other than why you want to add to things for them to 'work out', any shit they do will be corporate crap everyone knows. It's the long tail on those big companies you want on your wiki.