--- Erik Moeller <erik_moeller(a)gmx.de> wrote:
I'll use this as an opportunity to promote again
the help effort on Meta:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents
While our documentation isn't great yet, I think it is pretty darn good now and
was a bit surprised by the recent article that bashed it. I think the real
issue is that our documentation is
1) kinda hard to find and
2) only hosted on a Wikimedia website (he mentioned that he had to copy and
paste material to the wiki he set-up).
So what we need is for each version of MediaWiki to come with its own version
of the documentation in the help: namespace. Most of these pages would be
static and replaced with a new version the next time that person upgrades. This
would require the creation of a process by which new static versions are
generated from the development version on Meta. But other open source projects
have to deal with that already - why not us?
The only issue I see is licensing since the FDL and GPL and not compatible. But
if the FDL material were already in a MySQL database and downloaded as such,
then I don't see much of an issue.
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
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