Non-boonex related Wiki??

There was talk about a year ago about the creation of an unofficial 3rd party Dolphin Wiki where owners, members & mod developers could get together and share actual UP TO DATE and useful information (VERY MUCH unlike what is found on https://www.boonex.com/trac/dolphin/wiki)

 Is this notion dead in the water?

We can have the best software on the planet, but with (and sure.. I'll state this is MY opinion) the most outdated, incomplete and otherwise lousiest documentation i think i've ever seen for a commercial web product, its all but ancient greek for non devs (which...oddly... i think accounts for MOST of boonex' present and FUTURE clients..)

AlexT has his hands WAY full on the actual code.  He cant be expected to update the Wiki as well.  That needs to fall on a dedicated person (or 'persons').

And as that isn't happening, then shouldn't the 'official' wiki FINALLY be opened up to allow entries from 10-20 TRUSTED owners, devs, etc that have real ideas on whats going on and can add 'updated' information and/or 'new' information??

I'm not keen on Wikis because they're open to abuse, sometimes from within.  The other issue I have is how many people are we talking about when we refer to Dolphin users. Boonex has made some six-figure claim, but most of the Dolphin sites seem to be mass produced dating sites with manufactured profiles.

This forum attracts little attention as far as I can see and the three trutorials I posted recently haven't been heavily downloaded. Tutorials on my own specialist site have attacted 0ver 6,000 views in a matter of weeks. Less than 30 have been downloaded here in the past two weeks.

I agree that the documentation is next to useless, but as a retired instruction manual author with dozens of books in my archives, I know how difficult it is to write an accurate manual. I certainly couldn't do it, because I struggle with Dolphin as it is.

On the other hand, Boonex can attribute their success or failure to their documentation, or lack of it.

I often refer to another "Cottage Industry" program that costs under $50. Have a look at their tutorials:

http://www.wysiwygwebbuilder.com/getting_started.html

or download their free 270 page user guide to see how it can be done:

http://downloads.wysiwygwebbuilder.com/wb11userguide.zip

It's all about support! Without it, most of us are lost and we'll end up moving on.

Another group who need to wake up to themselves are the module creators. They obviously know the Dolphin code backwards, yet most  sit on the fence waiting for your money. From time to time a module author will speak up on the forum and help someone, but most just let us drown. They're out there to make money from what is essentially a free product, yet they do NOTHING to support it. If they only realised that they're not helping to generate sales of their own products because they're ignoring the users of the core product that feeds them.

 VERY true!!