Help.ubuntu.com wiki idea

[Corey Burger]

> Couple of points here.
>
> The BetterWikiDocs idea was not to lock down access to a new wiki (with
> the exception of controlling deleting/renaming of pages and other
> "administrative" activities that require a decent working knowledge of
> the wiki software). It was to put the docs all in way place and remove
> the distractions of other documentation. I think this is made quite
> clear on the page. Any "new" wiki would be open for all to edit, as I
> see it. Forking the wiki pages and making one "official" and one
> "non-official" version would be a dangerous road to go down IMHO.
>

The idea would be that once an "official" version was published, the
development version would be made to point to the published version.

> As for an easy way to publish to help.u.c, the documents released with
> the operating system are published there. The work in progress docs are
> published on doc.u.c and there is a really easy way to publish these:
> simply make changes to the sidebar.inc.php file in our svn. Adding a
> wiki to help.u.c with restricted permissions which is editable only by
> the docteam would basically be going down the road of using the wiki
> exclusively for docs. Now, this may be a road we want to go down (Fedora
> seem to do this), but it shouldn't be dressed up as anything else, and
> is obviously a massive decision which would require full xml
> compatibility on any wiki.

I am not looking for full XML docbook stuff. By publish, I mean move
from doc.u.c and help.u.c so that they would become somewhat static.

If we did move from a wiki to anything else, it would be VERY simple
content management system, with a very simple wiki-like markup.

> If these points were not made clear in the spec, please feel free to
> include this thread in any BOF, although it is a shame that we will only
> have one docteam member present at it.

Corey