This Wiki (”This was the very first Wiki, the one that started it all.”) is a place that starts you off with the Extreme Programming Roadmap and lets you end up at the story of Stone Soup.
Along the way, you can be led to the problem of Essential difficulty in programming or the thorny issue of Surviving Guru Status. You may follow through to the XP tenet of Do The Simplest Thing That Could Possibly Work or any one of the thousands of pages hosted in the Wiki. All are interesting, some are strange, some irreverent and all provide a great example of how user-contributed documentation works.
Reminds me of a place I once worked at (had a really good time, actually): the team there had tried all sorts of things to get their documentation needs working for them; pretty much nothing did. I suggested a Wiki “…so that you can contribute the pages, keep them up to date and capture all the stuff that was ‘getting lost’ before.” I was amazed at the pushback against user contributed/edited content. Seemed to me that the problem mutated into: “But we can’t possibly show our managers an unstructured mess of pages!” Eventually a Wiki of sorts was adopted; a Wiki that was carefully structured and locked down in precisely the same way as the shelf upon shelf of existing documentation–and having the same worth to the organisation. The fundamental ‘liveness’ was lost, alongside all potential for change and any realisation of value.
I guess you can take a horse to water….
Anyway, that isn’t the problem here…the “unstructured mess of pages” really works. Take a look-see, but don’t blame me if you get trapped!
