"Lars Aronsson" lars@aronsson.se wrote in message news:Pine.LNX.4.64.0704220520400.7447@localhost.localdomain...
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)