Re: About the Wiki

Whats with this domain:

http://www.nhibernate.net/

It seems it is not reserved and it perfectly fits all needs :-)

I am also for a wiki based documentation and for a wiki based homepage 
(like mono it dose) too.

Steve

James Kovacs schrieb:
> I agree with Pierre Henri. Having the wiki be an editable version of the 
> NHibernate docs would lower the bar for people contributing to the 
> documentation. This would be a good thing. A quick Google revealed 
> DocBookWiki, which is wiki software specifically designed to display and 
> edit DocBook online. Rather than bulk importing/exporting DocBook->HTML, 
> DocBookWiki does it on the fly and stores its content in DocBook format.
> 
> http://doc-book.sourceforge.net/homepage/
> 
> It sounds promising, but I've only read the intro page and not actually 
> tried it out.
> 
> Personally I think that:
> 
> http://docs.nhibernate.org
> 
> would be a lot easier to remember than:
> 
> http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/nhibernate/1.2/reference/en/html_single/
> 
> IMHO I think docs.nhibernate.org <http://docs.nhibernate.org> makes more 
> sense than wiki.nhibernate.org <http://wiki.nhibernate.org>. Wiki is an 
> implementation detail. Docs describes what it is.
> 
> James
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> On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 2:47 AM, Pierre Henri Kuaté <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
>     We had a wiki a while ago (Confluence IIRC), but after the merging
>     with hibernate.org <http://hibernate.org>, most of its articles
>     where integrated in the current documentation.
> 
>     There are basically two options to start using one again:
>     - (Continue to) use the current Hibernate wiki. Yes, there is one :)
>     But it doesn't contain much NHibernate material.
>     - Install our own wiki at either nhibernate.sourceforge.net
>     <http://nhibernate.sourceforge.net> or wiki.nhibernate.org
>     <http://wiki.nhibernate.org> (that's where the old one was).
>     As far as I am concerned each of these options have their pros and
>     cons: Using the Hibernate wiki would allow a better integration of
>     the documentation (one website with everything). Hosting the wiki
>     separately would allow choosing the software we want...
> 
>     One of the main action aside for hosting the wiki is putting some
>     content in it since an empty wiki can be quite intimidating. Also,
>     it seems that many would like to have the same documentation they
>     have in the reference in that wiki (so that they can quickly edit
>     it). This will also require some work to port the DocBook version to
>     the wiki and keep them in sync (ie: port the edits back to the
>     DocBook version).
> 
>     Something that could ease and speed up that process would be to have
>     a wiki that support import/export from/to DocBook. I quickly googled
>     it and it seems that there are a few tools that could be used...
> 
>     Pierre Henri.
> 
> 
>     --- On *Thu, 7/3/08, Jon Stelly /<[email protected]
>     <mailto:[email protected]>>/* wrote:
> 
>         From: Jon Stelly <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
>         Subject: Re: [NHibernate-development] Aligning with Hibernate
>         versioning
>         To: "the NHibernate development list"
>         <[email protected]
>         <mailto:[email protected]>>
>         Date: Thursday, July 3, 2008, 11:20 PM
> 
>         I'd like to second the wiki idea.  I think API-level
>         documentation is great, and I wouldn't want to lose what's there
>         in that CHM file but a Wiki where we could better capture some
>         guidance, examples, etc... would go a long way to making
>         NHibernate easier to learn for beginners.  I've also had the
>         same thought "I'd like to expand on this description a bit" but
>         I don't have the motivation to download source and submit a
>         patch (call me lazy).
> 
>         On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 8:56 PM, Fabio Maulo
>         <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
>             2008/7/2 Will Shaver <[email protected]
>             <mailto:[email protected]>>:
> 
>                 What we need is an actual Wikipedia style Wiki for docs.
>                 There have been multiple times while reading the
>                 documentation that I've thought, "that's wrong, and I
>                 would fix it right here if I could... but firing up an
>                 xml editor and re-compiling it is too much effort."
>                  
> 
> 
>             Ok you and the community will have it ;)
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