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On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Mike Stockman <mstockman -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> In my latest gig, I'm going to be creating several large technical
> documents
> where some developers (3 or 4 people) will be active participants in the
> documents as well... I own them, but they'll help with structure, they'll
> write some material, review my content, etc.
>
> A) Wikis. MediaWiki (the wiki behind wikipedia), the latest beta of which
> spits out some fine looking PDFs, seems like the best so far. Revision
> control, topic-oriented, etc. But I'm not sure how that would be for
> organizing the information... can you set up collections of topics
> hierarchically?
>
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