Another NEdit Site
From Niki
Why a new NEdit site when there is already a perfectly good official one?
Niki is not meant to compete with nedit.org, but rather to be a complement. Niki caters to usage patterns and types of content that are not easily served well by a traditional website, and tries to leave alone the types of content that are.
Nor is it a rival to the mailing lists at nedit.org. Although highly interactive, Niki is still a pull-service, more suitable for recording conclusions and being a repository for work-in-progress than for being an active forum for debate.
Some of the main differences are:
- Unreliable: Since Niki is open for all to edit, this means the content is volatile and less reliable than static web pages under the control of a webmaster. Also, the contents might not be consistent with any particular official release of NEdit. Don't let that put you off, though; there are advantages too:
- Dynamic: The upside is that Niki can catch changes much faster, since a user/developer can enter their thoughts and see the result immediately, without any editorial screening or delay. Hopefully the low overhead will motivate people to contribute.
- Organic: Niki intentionally aims to become whatever users have to say, and to grow in the directions that capture interest, rather than to fill some specific requirement. This will hopefully also motivate users to write down and publish their ideas.
- Unofficial: Although now part of nedit.org, Niki is still not official documentation, and avoids the quality requirements that entails. The points above make Niki a perfect place to publish rough drafts and experimental content and develop it collaboratively, without having to tie it consistently to a specific NEdit release, or worry about everything being correct and polished before publishing. It's the less-formal playground of NEdit documentation.
