UVTC's Blog

2012-05-31

If you’re looking for a way to get some community-driven documentation together, or if you just want a system for keeping your own notes organized and rendered nicely, you might consider creating a wiki.

Community-driven wikis can be useful when you’ve got a number of people who’d like an easy way to contribute some documentation, and who are willing to be flexible with regard to others editing their content.

Quickly, some benefits of wikis:

Some drawbacks:

If you’re looking to start a wiki and need to choose one, I recommend gitit. In no particular order, here are some reasons why:

If you decide that a wiki is what you want, definitely have a look at gitit.