Re: Selwyn: Why haven't more IT pro's heard of Alpha?
Although I agree that Alpha's intentions are well placed and I hope I am completely wrong in my assessment, but I do not think the Wiki will replace or even come close to the amount of knowledge or even have the ability to find said knowledge any better than the present messageboard and help files.
Why?? Because from what I can tell, they are only going to be utilizing the current documentation. If they were to place the messageboard contents into it and somehow organize the information with cross referencing, then that would be a totally different scenario.
John,
Separating out the various components of the messageboard will only help a minute amount IMO. It will not aid in any knowledge search at all...well unless a user decides to narrow the search to ONLY one forum which really limits the amount of information and solutions one would find. Any search on the messageboard should include ALL of the forums as most problems/solutions are not version specific (I have found many solutions for current versions even from Alpha Four forums).
Getting back to the Wiki. For it to be a success, it will have to have a lot of contributors....and some sort of monitoring to ensure the solutions given are correct. That is how this messageboard works now. When something is posted that is misleading or even outright incorrect, many here will chime in and fix it. Is this going to happen on the Wiki? Doubtful, unless the Alphaholics from this board stop frequenting the board and go over to the Wiki. I, for one, would simply not have the time to do both....I even have a hard time reading every post every day as I am currently doing.
Regardless, I do appreciate that Alpha has initiated this effort to appease the wants of its userbase, even if I believe currently that it won't be enough (again, hope I'm completely wrong!!!!).
:)
Although I agree that Alpha's intentions are well placed and I hope I am completely wrong in my assessment, but I do not think the Wiki will replace or even come close to the amount of knowledge or even have the ability to find said knowledge any better than the present messageboard and help files.
Why?? Because from what I can tell, they are only going to be utilizing the current documentation. If they were to place the messageboard contents into it and somehow organize the information with cross referencing, then that would be a totally different scenario.
John,
one desktop section for a5v9
Getting back to the Wiki. For it to be a success, it will have to have a lot of contributors....and some sort of monitoring to ensure the solutions given are correct. That is how this messageboard works now. When something is posted that is misleading or even outright incorrect, many here will chime in and fix it. Is this going to happen on the Wiki? Doubtful, unless the Alphaholics from this board stop frequenting the board and go over to the Wiki. I, for one, would simply not have the time to do both....I even have a hard time reading every post every day as I am currently doing.
Regardless, I do appreciate that Alpha has initiated this effort to appease the wants of its userbase, even if I believe currently that it won't be enough (again, hope I'm completely wrong!!!!).
:)
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