Re: Pod and AxKit based Wiki

I'm tempted to try (since I have AxKit running on my box anyway) but I guess I'm not comfortable and I'm sort of confused with the whole Wiki concept...

For example, what's the point in allowing people to edit PODs? Not that I'm against it or anything, I just don't know what it would be good for...?

(AxKit rocks...)

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Re: Re: Pod and AxKit based Wiki by Matts (Deacon) on Jun 16, 2002 at 17:21 UTC
The nice thing about being able to put POD directly online this way is it's the format we use for our module documentation, so we can just cut and paste from docs. We also already know the format - we work in it day in day out, so we know that code starts with an indent, bold is B<>, and ¨aut;mlauts are E<umlaut> and so on. This reduces the Cognitive Dissonance that comes with some perl hacker coming along wanting to add something to the Wiki. The whole Wiki concept definitely is confusing. At first I would think that it leads to complete chaos. But it doesn't seem to. A great couple of links on this are Why Wiki Works and Why Wiki Works Not.	[reply]
Re: Re: Pod and AxKit based Wiki by dws (Chancellor) on Jun 15, 2002 at 00:26 UTC
What's the point in allowing people to edit PODs? Think of POD as an alternate Wiki markup language. The standard Wiki markup language is pretty limiting. By supporting POD, you can both use POD for markup when editing a Wiki page, or, perhaps, import existing PODs into your Wiki.	[reply]