Re: wiki documentation

Totally cool. I think we are in substantial agreement
with the overall scope of this.

Yes, I'm willing to work on it in the next month. I would
suggest that we start small and get something
completed earlier, rather than starting bigger with
later completion. I'll be able to put in a few hours
a week, perhaps up to 10hrs/week or so.

I thinking the next step would be to decide the general
intent and direction. Here are my thoughts; other
suggestions welcome:

1) The intent is to use the wiki as the source. The wiki
would first be loaded up from the help doc, but this would
be a one-time only thing. After any particular section was
loaded into the wiki, the wiki would become the source
for that section. Edits would be in the wiki, and the help
would be generated from there.

2) wiki to require login; accounts set up on request

Any other suggestions? Any objections?
Do we call a vote or what?

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Early action items:

a) get consensus on overall direction
b) decide what section to do first
c) put a link in the existing help, pointing to the wiki
d) write scripts to transfer to/from wiki
e) require login to wiki
f) write intro for wiki


Stephen,
If you want to work on scripts to transfer to and from,
that would be great. I can write the intro and page through
the wiki after it is loaded, polishing up as appropriate.

I know nothing about admin side of MediaWiki, so I'm
happy to leave that to others.

Some admin details:
I tried to use the table of contents feature built in to
MediaWiki, but I was unable to do so. Perhaps this
is disabled in the config? It's always possible I'm
doing it wrong, but it seems so easy that I'm thinking
it's a setup issue.

My suggestion on where to start is the "phones"
folder, mainly because this is the section that would
benefit the most by updates from the user community.

We should probably use templates in MediaWiki.
I don't know how to set them up, and I'm not sure if
this is an admin function or not. Do you know?
If not, I can research it.



On 6/3/07, Stephen Wood <[email protected]> wrote:
> Mark, devel list:
>
> I am the one who set up the Wiki originally.  If you would like, I can give
> you the Sysop password.  If you need to make changes the require changes to
> Wiki config file, let me know and I'll do them.

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