Don’t name your wikis “Wiki”
I noticed while visitng the Mojavi Project that they have a navigation bar with a “Wiki” link. I was looking for a “Documentation” link and was confused for quite some time before realizing that they store all documentation on their wiki.
It’s fine to store documentation on a wiki. Because wikis are so neat, and they’re a new technology, nerds forget that almost nobody knows what a wiki is yet. I’d be shocked if there was more than 10% familiarity within the entire IT world. Documentation should still be “Documentation” or “Manual”, regardless of the format. You wouldn’t create a web-based documentation site and name it “HTML”, would you? Or, for that matter, make a manual and name it DOC or PDF.
Remember that technologies are neat, but just because we use wikis all the time doesn’t mean that the format is inherently more important than the content.
