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<DIV><SPAN class=978352903-23032006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>I will
be honest and post my own thoughts, nothing more then just my own
thoughts. I see a lot of people that try to address what they view as a
missing link in the documentation of Ubuntu by creating thier own documentation
site. I guess I have to wonder how this really helps things out. If
there are more then one place to find the information, how does one know what
information is either official information or correct? If the wiki and the
information on doc.ubuntu.com and help.ubuntu.com are the official documentation
and how-to, shouldn't we be focusing on the ifnromation posted there and
provided there? Granted the markup of the wiki isn't the greatest, but
wouldn't it better serve the greator Kubuntu/Edubuntu/Xubuntu/Ubuntu world
better to have the best documentation ever then diluting this documentation
through different locations and sources?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=978352903-23032006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Remember this is just my personal feelings, but I think the
documenation/wiki should be the primary focus and get things cleaned
up/organized up and polished as best as it can be, before forking things and
creating your own set of docs. Is the wiki/docs really that hard to learn
how to use? I would argue it isn't being new to both in the last two
years, heck I didn't start working on docs until just before
breezy.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=978352903-23032006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>And
not to ramble/rant too far off topic, but I think it might be time to split the
doc team up from being both doc team and wiki team to a full fledged team
dedicated to improving the wiki, have wiki meetings and everyting, maybe this
will help ease the "learning curve" that is is the wiki?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=978352903-23032006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=978352903-23032006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Once
again, I feel a bit frustrated by the amount of duplicate work that gets done,
when there are things in the proposed/official work that need polish and clean
up.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=978352903-23032006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Jonathan</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
ubuntu-doc-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com
[mailto:ubuntu-doc-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com]<B>On Behalf Of </B>Andrew
Zajac<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, March 22, 2006 9:11 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
ubuntu-doc@lists.ubuntu.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> Documentation database
revisited<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV>Would any docteam members like to chime in on this forums thread:</DIV>
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<DIV><A
href="http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=148378">http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=148378</A></DIV>
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<DIV>It's an idea to unify the many sources of documentation using tags and a
database. Frontends to follow...</DIV>
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