Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: Homebrew PCBs

The thing about wikis is that, while they arguably turn you into a feeble-minded user who couldn't set the right DOCTYPE to save their life, they free you up to just work on content.

There are a few (not many) free wiki providers. No ads, no engineers to pay.

I've used "heavy" wikis like TWiki and MediaWiki, as well as "easy to use" ones like the Google one, and Apple's built-in-to-OSX one. The easy to use ones are a bit limiting, the heavy ones are a bit hard for less-experienced users.

www.wikia.com provides free wikis based on MediaWiki (which is what Wikipedia is built on). That'd be what I'd vote for - unless the Google stuff has changed a lot in the last year or so, it was pretty limited.

Here's one of many reasons wikis are nice: while writing an article (say on vias) you could make a link to [Plated Through Holes] - an article that doesn't exist, but obviously should. When anyone clicks that link, they're told "it doesn't exist, would you like to create it" and all they have to do is say "OK" and they're editing the page. They grow organically from the top down.

But ... we don't agree. We'd have to have very strict "don't delete opposing views" rules. Could all end in tears.

PG