wiki vs documentation

[Jonathan Aquilina]

is it possible to get help from doc team members to update the wiki with
things that have been discussed?


On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 7:56 AM, Tom Davies <tomdavies04 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi :)
> They are very different things with different aims that catch different
> types of people.  To edit official documentation you kinda need to be a
> team-player and communicate with other people and negotiate for the things
> you would like to see.
>
> By contrast in the wiki individuals can just go ahead and do things, even
> add pages they feel might be of interest to other people or just to
> themselves.
>
> If a big change happens it's theoretically more likely that the wiki will
> be updated sooner while the official documentation is still going through
> various processes.  The wiki never gets frozen but the official
> documentation needs to be frozen so that translators have time to translate
> without the source of their work being at risk of constant change even
> mid-sentence.  You will see this happen over the next few days and even
> weeks because the official documentation is about to be (or maybe even has
> already been frozen) so we can't make fresh changes now and have to race
> existing things through if they are nearly complete and/or need to go in.
>
> Having the 2 systems is not a duplication of our effort although sometimes
> effort expended in one has a benefit to the other or makes it easier to fix
> the other.
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
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>  *From:* Jonathan Aquilina <eagles051387 at gmail.com>
> *To:* Phill Whiteside <phillw at vpolink.com>
> *Cc:* Ubuntu Doc <ubuntu-doc at lists.ubuntu.com>
> *Sent:* Thursday, 19 September 2013, 6:31
> *Subject:* Re: wiki vs documentation
>
> Why dont both get merged? the doc team works with the community etc seeing
> as man power is scarce?
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 12:13 AM, Phill Whiteside <phillw at vpolink.com>wrote:
>
> There are two areas of the wiki system, https://help.ubuntu.com/ and
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community The former is looked after by the doc
> team, the latter is maintained by the community.
>
> Regards,
>
> Phill.
>
>
> On 18 September 2013 22:50, 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?
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