= Why CSpace instead of [[</~cks/>]]?

CSpace is like web space except it's more plastic and requires less
work to do things.

I already have perfectly good web space. Why have I glued a wiki
on to a piece of it (using server black magic at that), instead
of just using it normally?

* wiki-space is more casual than fully developed HTML pages
  (cf this point form list)
* DWikiText is much faster to write than HTML
** less formatting means less nit-picking with formatting choices
* it's more malleable:
** templates and override templates for skinning
** built in redirects
** exposed page search and navigation (less concerns about breaking
   links because people can always refind things)
** my code (I have the ultimate control if I want to work hard enough)
* it's easier to organize collections of pages
* therefor, easier to scribble things in it
* therefor, more likely to scribble things (the same motivation
  for creating DWiki as an environment for system documentation)

There's a place for fully developed HTML pages. I'm happy about the
work I've done on the [[USG technotes </usg/technotes/>]] and the
[[CQUEST technotes http://www.cquest.utoronto.ca/systems/technotes/]].
But I can't produce that level of work all the time, and I'd rather
try producing scribbles instead of producing nothing until I come out
with another fully formed technote semi-pearl.

Some of the casualness of CSpace and wiki-space to me is social
expectations, but I think it is rooted in the different working
environments. Something that is quick is just going to feel more
casual than something that demands a serious editing session with
structural markup and HTML tags.

I am hopeful that having a space as easily moldable and changeable as
DWiki is will encourage me to write more. There are things I would
like to natter on about, but with HTML web pages and suchlike it often
seems like too much work. (As a result, my 'real' web pages are
approaching the status of archaelogical relics, where they haven't
been changed in so long that I want to just preserve them as-is as a
piece of history.)