Thanks, Casey.
I know that, for me, some of the content on the Hacks wiki has been invaluable. At its best, it offers useful tutorials, presenting information in a more structured form than is found on the Discourse forums.
The forums are searchable, but the discussion usually revolves around one person's specific code question, not approaches to a particular problem in general. Also, they are discussions, not tutorials, and sometimes require a great deal of energy to read, absorb, and evaluate, just to identify whether or not the information is relevant to
my question right now.
So the tutorial-like structure of the wiki pages can be helpful, but wikis have other challenges:
- Need a critical mass of participants to write, update, and maintain content (which may be feasible, as the Processing community continues to grow)
- Need admin oversight to address spam, wrongly deleted posts, etc.
What other kinds of content were you thinking could be put on the wiki? There may be other, non-wiki solutions that we just haven't considered yet.