[Mediawiki-l] Downloadable MediaWiki documentation

[Rob Church]

Rick: Yes, end-user stuff (editing, etc.) is what I was thinking. The
administration guides don't need to go into the Help namespace at all.

Brion: Couldn't we adapt the script that populates the MediaWiki
namespace to do the actual adding to the wiki upon installation, if
the administrator opts for this? Or at least, duplicate it, rename it,
and tweak it for this particular purpose.


Rob Church

On 04/01/06, Brion Vibber <brion at pobox.com> wrote:
> Rick DeNatale wrote:
> > On 1/3/06, Rob Church <robchur at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> MediaWiki, alas, "ships" with a blank Help namespace. I'm hoping,
> >> myself, that we can at some point start shipping with content; alas,
> >> most of it needs to be rewritten and released under the GPL or a
> >> compatible license, so that it can be included with the software.
> >
> > When I look at wikipedia, meta etc, they all seem to claim that the
> > content is licensed under the GFDL.  Is this really an issue?
>
> GFDL isn't a problem for distributing a documentation package along with the
> software. (It's not *part of* the software. It would just be shipped with it,
> like a manual.)
>
> It may be a problem for people wanting to *import and use* that documentation on
> their non-GFDL wikis. This is why there's been talk about making some doc pages
> that are explicitly public domain, so nobody has to worry about the basic help
> pages having a confusing license that mixes with their other content.
>
> -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
>
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