Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Facilitating recipes with phpwiki

[Adam S. <ad...@pe...>]

Marjorie Roswell wrote:

>I've concluded that since people aren't using my site, it could probably be made easier to use. Looking for ideas, and also code.
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>I've announced the site to a raw foods listserv twice, to a raw food seminar of people who cared enough to pay $40 to be there, and to (great) vegetarian thanksgiving meal, and to this listserv, of course. Of more than 600 people receiving the announcement, only three people have added content to it, including someone on this list. 
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Just as an FYI, that's actually not too bad.  wiki's confuse people ... 
a lot.  despite the fact that they are incredibly simple a lot of people 
really resist the idea of using them.  it took me months to get people 
regularly adding contect to the personaltelco.net wiki and that's 
despite the fact that my audience was fairly hardcore geek and there 
were 70+ people on a mailing list specifically working on a project.

wiki's build slowly, give it time.  in the mean time make sure that 
*you* use it as much as possible, as it becomes more and more useful 
people will use it more and more.

my personal recommendation would be that if you want to use wiki, resist 
the temptation to make a special recipe module.  the strength of wiki 
comes from it's ability to do everything.  if you did want to do 
something to make importing recipies easier maybe a good way of doing it 
would be to setup a little web form which would convert other formats 
into wiki markup, so they can just cut and paste it into the wiki.  this 
way you preserve the strength of wiki and still make peoples lives easier.

some of your other concerns are totally valid, i'd love to see %%% 
replaced with <br> etc.

Adam.

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