AVR-Chat

This is partly in reply to this:

Roy: ... more reason to keep Dave VanHorn's getting
........ started with the AVR code handy.
Dave: I feel bad that I haven't updated it in ages.

Is the AVRfreaks Wiki going to be useful?  I've been following along 
for a couple of months but I don't see much activity on the 8-bit 
side.  Should this be where we share the work of maintaining things 
like a Getting Started Guide?  I personally see a couple of problems.  
First, there's quite a bit of spamming going on and the wikimaster is 
often a bit slow to ban the spammer.  Second, the editorial policies 
don't seem to be very well thought out and nobody answers questions on 
the talk page.  Specifically, everything is supposed to go in the 
Documentation: namespace and there's nothing to separate AVR8 and AVR32 
pages.  What do people think about the Wiki?

Graham.

Graham Davies wrote:

 | Is the AVRfreaks Wiki going to be useful? I've been following along
 | for a couple of months but I don't see much activity on the 8-bit
 | side. Should this be where we share the work of maintaining things
 |  like a Getting Started Guide? I personally see a couple of problems.
 | First, there's quite a bit of spamming going on and the wikimaster is
 | often a bit slow to ban the spammer. Second, the editorial policies
 | don't seem to be very well thought out and nobody answers questions on
 | the talk page. Specifically, everything is supposed to go in the
 | Documentation: namespace and there's nothing to separate AVR8 and AVR32 
 | pages. What do people think about the Wiki?  


   I, for one, have no use for Wikis.  Clever concept, but seriously 
flawed.
When anyone can post anything, there is no accountability for accuracy or
completeness.   At least, on a personal webpage, you know WHO is providing
the information, so you know who to get angry with if it turns out to be 
incorrect
or incomplete.  I will not accept citations to Wikipedia articles as 
authoritative on
ANY Bsubject, much less technical subjects.  Call me an old coot if you 
will, but
I prefer traditional sources.

tom
aka avrFreak