I understand that KB has a history and that this history
constrains it. (01)
However, I also think it will show some of the places where wiki's fall down. (02)
1) does every page have a "did I answer your question" question?
2) Are the other links generated automatically or by hand?
3) What programs can reason over the knowledge base?
4) How do you export the knowledge base?
5) What happens when you want to include images?
6) What happens when you edit a page? how does the approval process work?
7) Can you assign permissions/access patterns to subpages?
is there a delegation process?
8) Can you simulate everything you need for KB with a wiki?
would it be harder or easier than the current KB? (03)
9) Can you simulate everything you need for a KB with a collection
of info files? What would be missing? (04)
I am guessing that there is a lot of hand work and little automation.
Am I guessing right? (05)
cdent@blueoxen.org writes: (06)
% On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, John Sechrest wrote:
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% > Can you outline the features and abilities that are different
% > than using a wiki to store this information?
% >
% > Could you help me compare and contrast the KB.indiana.edu,
% > info-files and wikis?
%
% The primary differences are of intent and structure.
%
% A kb document is currently maintained in an SGML format called
% KBML that was designed back 96 or so. It structures a document as
% a question with an answer. The SGML document can be validated and
% transformed, very handy for editing and presentation. Nowadays
% tere would be an XKBML, but the current kb is not a nowadays kind
% of thing.
%
% KBML allows some rudimentary HTML style markup plus:
%
% * multiple titles/questions depending on audience
% * KBA: inlined links from one kbdoc to another
% * Refs: see also references (actualy maintained as external
% metadata in this incarnation of the kb)
% * Xtras: additional words to weight search indexing
% * miscellaneous other convenience diddles
%
% Writing a KB document tends to be a bit of an ordeal.
%
% A wiki page: less intent, less structure, more freedom in some
% ways.
%
% Is this the sort of stuff you were after?
%
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% then you had lost your alibi. --Samantha Power
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