Publishing good wiki docs in the distribution

Matthew East mdke at ubuntu.com
Mon Jan 23 14:36:23 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 14:11 +0000, Matthew East wrote:
> I'd like to raise something for discussion: is it desirable for us to
> ship individual wiki pages as guides in the distribution. 
> 
> The technical barriers to this have been slightly lowered with the
> release of Moin 1.5 (thanks to mhz for reminding me of this). What is
> necessary is:
> 
> Put a wiki page in a Moin 1.5 wiki (such as a personal desktop version),
> use the "render in xml" tool, then put the output in a file and tidy it
> up using the validation tool in our repository.

caveat: the xml produced by Moin will generally require _quite a lot_ of
cleaning up in order to satisfy our dtd, as I have just found out by
experimenting.
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