I’ve been filling out the wiki on Yakumo’s Trac page and it’s proving a pretty nice way of collecting information. It might make an interesting appendix for the final report, but there’s plenty in there that I’m sure I can re-use, though mostly as introductions to sections with what I have so far. I hope to get a bit deeper into the tech as I go along though.
I’ve been thinking that it might be an interesting way for an examiner (or who-ever it is that’s looking at it) to learn about the technology and work involved. It’s a long time since I’ve heard anyone preach the merits of hypertext, but it really is a great way to explore a subject, and a great way to create a set of documents. I think Wikipedia is a great example of this, and my point is proven by your browser’s tab bar 30 minute after going to Wikipedia for anything, and the size of the project.
Incidentally, any wikis I’ve ever contributed to seem to have an equilibrium that they finally reach. Depending on the subject, and number of contributers, this level of equilibrium differs from wiki to wiki, but it definitely exists. Let’s hope that if I keep writing mine will get to that state of satisfactory completeness.
I’ve uploaded the original presentation on Yakumo that I gave last semester. I’m pretty sure I had the goals I outlined completed in the first 4 days of development. If only I had been using SVN back then I’d be able to figure out exactly how long…
I’ll leave you with Japanese punk band Blue Hearts’ debut hit, a 1987 track by the name of “Linda Linda”. Always a fun one to sing at karaoke. Gotta love Hiroto’s energy.
not sure about equilibrium. Is it really a surprise that a group of people whose number doesn’t grow – have a finite amount of knowledge about a subject?
Hasn’t Wikipedia’s number of users grown or at least turned around a lot? And it’s subject is extremely open. Yet it looks to be cooling down a bit. In a lecture right now so sorry I don’t have any numbers.