[Typo3-documentation] Structuring first, writing later?

[Jean-Marie Schweizer]

Ingmar Schlecht wrote:

> Jean-Marie Schweizer wrote:
> 
>>> The wiki is blowed up with pages that are basically empty, just 
>>> containing a header or a link to a manual on Typo3.org.
>>
>>
>> The has a structural purpose and doesn't hurt at all.
> 
> 
> So you'd like to structure everything first, and write the articles later?

Not so much, but I do structure before I start writing.

> Personally, I don't like that approach, because it seem only 
> demotivating to me if there are so many empty articles that someone 
> "planned" but never wrote.

Interesting, I haven't really seen it that way. To me it's the opposite, 
it's actually motivating. I can see what I need to focus on.

> I would prefer a "natural way of growth", meaning that the wiki should 
> currently be nearly EMPTY, and if someone writes an articles, the wiki 
> will grow. We can think about structuring then. In the current state, 
> the Wiki is IMHO overstructured.

Now seeing where you are coming from I understand why you think that way.

> As a compromise, I would create a page "planned articles" that lists all 
> the planned and work in progess articles that are not to written to a 
> usable extent yet.

Honestly, I don't think I am going to add anything there, just because I 
know I am not goin to keep it maintained. But if I really must, I can 
get rid of those empty pages and keep them on a little note next to my 
computer.

IMHO it's a little backwards but if you're not the only one that feels 
that way I'm happy to do it.

I still think that this whole discussion about overstructured is little 
too early in the game. It's like judging the work of one of my 
programmers when he just started on a project management tool by 
creating the framework with nothing in it.

Jean-Marie