On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 02:22:10PM -0500, Graham Fawcett wrote:
> Seriously: perhaps moving the Quixote documentation to the Wiki would be
> a good idea. Then, "write it yourself" would be a decent and meaningful
> reponse to "the documentation is lacking".

Nope, hardly ever.  The lesser reason is that writing documentation
that's worth the pixels to display it isn't easy, but that's a problem
the wiki might in fact help with.  Depends on who puts what effort into
it.  The big problem is that the person complaining about a lack in (or
of) the documentation is in no position to write it - if he understood
it already, he wouldn't have needed the lacking documentation, eh?

Okay, there are exceptions.  And a wiki can be an even better vehicle
for harnessing the power of Aahz's Law than news groups or mailing
lists...

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