From: "Steve Bennett" stevage@gmail.com
On 8/9/06, HappyDog wikilist@kennel17.co.uk wrote:
True - the documentation is in quite a state at the moment. There is a
move
to sort out the Mediawiki docs, and to consolidate everything at mediawiki.org, but it is a slow process and so far there are not many
people
participating. Any help is always appreciated, so the short answer is
yes -
you can directly edit those pages, and it would be appreciated.
Ok, so what's the current situation, and what's the goal? All mediawiki doc should be at mediawiki.org? What's where atm?
Yes, in the long term. There is a project aimed at transferring content about the software from meta to MW, making MW a comprehensive resource for all information about the software (at least, all information provided by the foundation). This is located at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:MetaProject_to_transfer_content_to_Media Wiki.org, however there has been little action regarding this yet and there are still a lot of things to be worked out before a proper move can be undertaken.
Additionally, there are issues that need resolving about the structure of MW.org, which I have added to a new page at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Current_issues.
So, in short, SOME documentation is at meta, SOME documentation is at MW.org, and there are various other places where bits of useful information have been scattered. Additionally, there is currently little consistency about where within either site (and particularly at MW) this information is located and how it is structured...
A bit of a mess, really!
- Mark Clements (HappyDog)