[Digikam-devel] wiki for digikam (+kipi-plugins)?

[Fabien]

Hi,

Arnd Baecker wrote:
>>
>>Like there's no consensus about the wiki,
> 
> 
> I think that this conclusion comes too early, we are still
> in the phase of discussing things.
> 
> From my previous experiences with another wiki I think the
> following points are important:
> - any user who wants to correct typos/add stuff/make changes etc.
>   should be allowed to do so.
>   (it is a wiki, so any changes can be rolled back and
>    in case user is really doing crap, we could exclude him.)

I agree.

> - To avoid spam: For the logins we might use the mailing list.
I'm not sure we could do that easily, but why not if possible.

> - policy: new material is first put into a users page
>   (still editable by others) and only after discussion/approval
>   moved to the main part.
>   Of course new stuff could also emerge from a discussion
>   on the mailing list and then directly go onto the main page.
> - managers group: people in this group may add/exclude
>   users and roll back changes (if necessary).

It may be a bit restrictive...

 > [...]
> 
> So why not try it out and see how it develops.
> If in a years time it is just crap one can just pick the
> good stuff and close the wiki.

Yes, this is why I think we could first use the KDE wiki. If there's 
activity and interesting contributions, then we could move the wiki 
inside the digikam's website (if it's possible to host it there).

> Apart from my previous objection wrt the changelog,
> we could of course use this.
> What I don't like are the many irrelevant links
> (at least from a digikam centric point of view)
> on the left hand side.
> 
> 
>>When a page is ok, we will add its content inside the digikam website.
> 
> 
> To me this approach seems too complicated. In particular,
> there will always be pages which might need an update
> from time to time ...

That's not false, but what I often see is projects/websites that have 
duplicate informations or missing informations on one side (wiki or 
website). It's always a bit confusing when you have to look for 
informations for the same thing at 2 different places...

If it's clearly separated, it's fine. Otherwise, it could be better to 
integrate new contents directly inside the website (new FAQ entries, 
etc...).

> On the technical side: do you think that you can
> for example easily set up a moin moin wiki
> (http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/) or
This one requires python, I'm not sure it would be possible.

> maybe a mediawiki (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki)
> on digikam.org?
I would prefer more simple and lightweight wiki engines like dokuwiki or 
pmwiki.

Anyway, I'd still propose to start first with the KDE wiki and to see a 
bit later if it's really useful to have our own wiki.

--
Fabien