[sdiy] why does google suck SO bad for finding my parts? Yahoo is on it!

[Johannes Öberg]

This is bad advice in my experience. Wiki's only work for certain
types of pages, and web shops are not one of them.

In fact, Wiki's usually make things a lot worse, because webmasters
use as some sort of excuse for not improving stuff, instead insulting
their clients by saying "well if you're so smart why don't you make a
wiki entry".

It's not an easy way to keep things up to date. An easy way to keep
things up to date is to edit your page regularly. A wiki is an easy
way to get misinformation, stupid jokes and spam embedded in your
page, and now you really have to go through every page on a daily
basis to keep it clean. Time you should have spent updating your page.

There are countless examples of wiki's destroying projects by simple
making the stuff never get written. Openoffice is one (imho).

Also, if it's a commercial page it's hard to get people to contribute.
A non-commercial page that sells stuff is a commercial page. Not
making money from the sales only makes it a failed commercial page;
it's still commercial.

(I'm a fan of Wikipedia and others, so it's not that I'm against wiki's per se)

/J

On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 2:37 AM, Kevin <kevingeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I think your site is useful.  The only suggestion I would make, is that it
> might benefit from being in a wiki (not in wikipedia - on your own wiki
> site).  Then other people can improve it really easily, and it is more
> likely to keep itself up to date.
>
> Wiki syntax is very simple to use and it's easy to make pages that look nice
> without any html knowledge.  So maintaining everything is much easier.
>
> I don't know if there is a free wiki hosting site that you can use, though.
>  People who have a wiki generally have their own web server.
>
> Maybe someone on the list could help you set up such a wiki?  Or maybe one
> already exists that needs content to be added to it.
>
> Thanks,
> Kevin