Re: wiki documentation

Kai-Uwe Behrmann <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.cinepaint.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Robin,

Am 25.02.08, 13:18 -0800 schrieb Robin Rowe:
> > do we still recommend to place author string and date at top of wiki
> > documentation page?
> 
> I do not control the wiki at bigasterisk and cannot administrate it 
> personally. It's nice of Drew to provide us a free wiki, but nobody is 
> maintaining it. Due to almost nobody besides me posting wiki docs and 
> pollution from spammers, using the wiki is discouraged.

This seems unfortunate. A wiki is a place where people can interact 
with a low entry level. The wiki pages are a invitation to the community 
and today a first choice for open source related community interaction.

Unlike the email lists, CinePaint's wiki has a shadow visibility. In other 
words the community stays far away from perception on the www pages. This 
is obvious with most wiki edits coming from developers. Other projects 
have often non developing people dedicated to documentation, tutorials ... 

Putting a link to the wiki in the top list of www.cinepaint.org/index.html 
would IMHO be an improvement.

> This is not a great system. I'm open to suggestions that don't create 

Agreed.

> even more work for me.

I have looked at the SF provided wiki. It seems not so easy.
http://osuosl.org/hosting/services may be an alternative.
...?


kind regards
Kai-Uwe Behrmann
-- 
developing for colour management 
www.behrmann.name + www.oyranos.org


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