"Lars Aronsson" <lars(a)aronsson.se> wrote in
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Jim Wilson wrote:
I agree - the doc on meta could be much
improved.
Unfortunately, until more is migrated (cleanly or otherwise) to
mediawiki.org, meta will still dominate the search results -
perpetuating the perception that it's an authoritative source.
I wrote one message indicating where the current documentation is,
brief and incomplete as it might be. Five other people wrote
messages about how everything needs to be moved around and
rearranged. Nobody wrote new documentation.
We currently have pretty complete documentation for all config settings,
parser hooks and more recently for each table in the DB. The class system
is being documented, as is a full list of arguments accepted by index.php.
(You will notice that these are largely sections useful to developers...)
The category system has recently been overhauled to make things easier to
find and I would estimate that our documentation of third-party extensions
now exceeds meta's.
There is still a lot of work to be done, particularly on the user-facing
docs, but please don't give the impression that nobody is working on it.
There are a small group of dedicated people who are putting in a lot of time
on this and I think it is unfair to belittle their efforts. It is a slow
process, and we welcome anyone who is able to help, but please don't dismiss
this project as dormant!
Please look at
MediaWiki.org to see where we're up to, and if you see holes
please fill 'em!
- Mark Clements (HappyDog)