wiki vs documentation

[Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph]

On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 2:50 PM, Jonathan Aquilina
<eagles051387 at gmail.com> wrote:
> What is the difference between the wiki and the official documentation?
> wouldnt it be better to grow the official documentation instead of maintain
> two instances of documentation?

There are 2 main differences: barrier to entry and maintainability.

To contribute to the official documentation that's published at
help.ubuntu.com you need to be familiar with bzr, mallard and more.

We have also committed to keeping this official documentation up to
date so it can be translated and ship with every release. This means
making it somewhat simpler than we may like in some ways so it remains
maintainable by the teams available.

To contribute to the wiki-based documentation at
help.ubuntu.com/community you only need to know some wiki markup -
much easier! We also don't strictly make a commitment to keep this up
to date or coordinate with the translations teams, so it's up to the
wiki gurus who use tags and things to inform users of what is up to
date, and let contributors know what needs work.

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