"Lyle Johnson" <lyle.johnson / gmail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:d4cf71b005021503496e121f14 / mail.gmail.com... > On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 09:17:20 +0900, craig duncan > <craig-duncan / earthlink.net> wrote: > > > I've seen the "maybe that should go on the wiki" response quite a few times. My > > thought about that, though, is when i have problems, i do google searches. I've > > found a lot of answers in ruby-talk but i've never found anything from the wiki. > > There's probably a very obvious reason for that. > > I was going to explain my take on this, but by the time I got finished > reading your post it was pretty clear that you already know the > answer. ;) > > If I know what it is I'm looking for, and I'm just not sure where to > find it, I use Google. For the most part, Wikis are more useful (to > me) for accidentally stumbling across interesting things. For example, > I might visit a Wiki and see that article X has been updated recently, > so I scan it just to see what it's about. That article links to > article Y on the same Wiki, and so I follow the link, and sometimes > serendipity kicks in and I find something interesting. Sounds like an implementation of ManualBot... :-)) robert