Joomla! 1.6 User Manual

4 Why you should love a wiki

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I have had a bit of a torrid time getting this thing going. So I apologize for not being quicker.

But quicker is the point of wiki's.

When I had untangled how to do it, the Manual Header template will make the maintenance of this site much easier.

When Joomla! 1.6 is released one single change will allow the Warning at the top of the page to be removed or changed to reflect Beta.
If it is decided to remove the status advice on the pages, that too is straightforward although perhaps a little less than removing the Warning.
The Naming Conventions will mean that Navigation happens automatically.
The possibility exists that the same text will be able to be used for the Manual and for the Help Pages.
The Naming Conventions allow us to consider multilingual Help Pages and Manual without too many structural changes.

And all of this without reference to a text book (Yes, I know that is an old man's view but I am) in 3 days. Of course, you could have done it quicker!

I have received very solid support from Chris Davenport who is the Master Guru of Joomla! documentation.
And he has pointed to two articles - here and here - which talk about using a Wizard approach to contributing articles.

And this reference to the Joomla! Documentation forum shows that folk are thinking about two ways to make wiki's more helpful.
- The ability to include discussion sections on the pages like PHPdoc
  - Which would let code snippets be included.
- And also leads to more straightforward localisation of the pages.