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Time and again in my class I refer the students to the wikihelp and it just isn't working.
Next year I am going to ask IT to install local help (if available).
Looks like it will be
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?id=16463987&siteID=123112
Shouldn't anything in Blue be a hyperlink?
I click on Help ? in the Chain Generator dialog box to find a formula.
Tip indicates to go to Engineer's Handbook, but doesn't take me there.
Someone from Autodesk ought to follow me around for a week and see all the (frustrating) stuff my students discover.
I don't have time to submit this stuff.
We would expect this to take us directly where we need to go without a bunch of wading around in the mud.
oh wait... 
Last year I mentioned, just mentioned Autodesk 360 to my boss and explained the whole cloud push... he was,.... less than receptive to the idea of our data just being "out there". Secure or not, I don't see us going that route for the foreseeable future.
And, back to the original topic, I've always found wiki help to be a little less than helpful. Some pages are great, others leave me scratching my head, more confused than when I looked at them.
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I agree and disagree.
Part of my dissertation years ago (long before there was a term "wiki") referred to the internet as a collaboration laboratory (collaboratory was the term I used). A large group as a whole can be much smarter than some individual or small group sitting in an office somewhere trying to figure out how to write a help system that everyone will understand.
In this case the "researcher" is anyone looking for (help) information.
But the problem is the (unpaid user) experts have little incentive to participate and probably don't even use the Help system with any substantial frequency. If they do take the initiative to try to help the Help, it should be a painless experience. Not an exercise in torture that no sane person would subject themselves to more than once a year.
And here I thought, the larger the group, the worse it became. Must be thinking of government then.
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