On 8/9/06, Steve Bennett stevage@gmail.com wrote:
Oh, actually what I basically meant was, "where would I find a comprehensive list of all these magic words?".
You have it: RFC, PMID, ISBN.
On 8/9/06, Steve Bennett stevage@gmail.com wrote:
Ok, so what's the current situation, and what's the goal? All mediawiki doc should be at mediawiki.org? What's where atm?
Current situation: Perpetual mess, as with most open-source projects, because documentation isn't enforced and coding is much more fun than documenting.
Goal: A reasonably up-to-date overview of all MediaWiki's features in some sensible format, at mediawiki.org, some released into the public domain and packaged with new installations, more advanced stuff GFDLd and kept at mediawiki.org, in as many languages as possible.
What's where: Lots of random stuff at Meta under the GFDL, which is apparently frowned upon because it restricts distribution and whatnot. Some stuff accumulating at mediawiki.org. Lots of more arcane details in comments in the code. All the rest implicit in the code itself. Behavior changing on a daily basis.
See also: Mediazilla bug #1, filed two years ago almost to the day, at the migration of bug tracking from Sourceforge. http://bugs.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1