Wiki as a living text
If many people have a negative image of the words "in the making" and "in the writing", I wonder if it would be better to call it "Continuous Improvement" or something like that. Books were to be "written, distributed, and read.
The writing and reading phases were clearly separated.
This allowed the same content creation process to be used when media without paper ties was subsequently created. The same has long been true in program development.
The phases of making and using were clearly separated.
Later the idea of "agile development" emerged. Instead of separating the phases of making and using, they proceed gradually in parallel.
When you start using the software, you learn. You find things you want to improve.
Separating the making phase from the using phase would be making without this learning.
It is not "in the making," but rather "trying to learn by user testing at an early stage. A negative term for a software project that is not "in the making" can be "a dead project that has not been maintained.
The environment around us is constantly changing, so any product must be continuously maintained or it will obsolescence. The idea that a "finished" product that is no longer continuously maintained is considered "dead" when metabolism stops. ---
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