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  14 years ago

  by Nimpo

  Mitch ★

  Denver, United States

  Joined 16 years ago
  OK, so I haven't been on the forums in some time now, but regardless.
  
  An idea just came to me and I would like some feedback on it.  You all are most likely familiar with wikis (Wikipedia) right?  Well what about forming one for programming topics?  Many coding articles I come across are outdated, incomplete, or contain errors.  Wikis seem to never have these problems.  Of course there is the issue of vandalism but Wikipedia has a nice system for handling it.
  
  Other areas where the wiki format may be beneficial:
  

  1. Some authors don't comment their code, with it being a wiki, others could add them
  2. Some articles contain things like "you can extend it to do _____", with it being a wiki, others could
  3. Some very technical subjects have information scattered all over the place, a wiki would allow individuals who are experts in each area to add their part to the subject
     
     

  What do you guys think?  I'm just tossing around ideas and seriously just thought of this five minutes ago, it may have been done already.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  14 years ago

  by DoctorMahdi

  DoctorMahdi

  , Somalia

  Joined 15 years ago

  It seems a good IDEA to me

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  14 years ago

  by sync_or_swim

  Rob Bickel

  S. Wales, United Kingdom

  Joined 15 years ago

  Nimpo,
  
  I agree with you.  On several occasions I have come across coding articles which are outdated, incomplete or not easy enough to follow, and I have often wished that I could alert other users to the fact or convey my findings/observations to the author so that they can amend the article.
  
  As you say, the main problem is vandalism, however, "soft security" concentrates on making it easy to undo malicious changes as opposed to trying to prevent them, and, as long as some sort of roll-back feature was available I cant see any problem.  I assume that the majority of site visitors would have a genuine interest in the content and would wish to contribute.
  
  I must say that I wouldn't know where to begin but I will try and assist you in any way I can!!!
  
  
  
  
  
  

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