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title: "The Challenge of Web 2.0 Documentation: WordPress’s Immense Codex"
date: 2006-12-29
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# The Challenge of Web 2.0 Documentation: WordPress’s Immense Codex
This is the predicament of the [WordPress Codex.](http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page) Initially it may have included only one section, but it grew, and grew, and grew. And WordPress is still new.

Let's say you're just starting out with WordPress. Would you be intimidated by ... "The Codex"? Here's the home page of the Codex.

[![wordpress ](https://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/idbwmedia.com/images/wordpressdocumentation1.gif)](http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page)

I had to actually use the Snagit scrolling window capture to grab that. It's immense.

What is the solution to organizing massive amounts of user-contributed information? As Web 2.0, open-source applications, and user communities proliferate, these questions will become more pressing. This is essentially WordPress's own wikipedia. I think that ultimately such large databases of information will only be searched by keywords. So each post/entry should have ample keywords. (Microsoft Word seems to offer its help documentation by keyword as the default.)