<div>I've brought up this topic before, but was just browsing the kde forums and so I'll ask it of this mailing list again: What is the main reason that kde documentation cannot be formatted strictly for wiki and updated by users, and available primarily via internet access?</div>
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<div>I've heard arguments of needing to have documentation for every release version of kde, but frankly I think that is a pipe-dream. The documentation is so out of date and incomplete for *any* release version that it would be further impossible to include docs for all releases!</div>
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<div>Also what is the need to include and make available by default offline documentation? Why can't the system admin (if one exists for whatever size network) simply download a hard copy of the wiki text and distribute it to users internally as the sysadmin and users deem necessary?</div>
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<div>Why is the kde team locked into the docbook format? Don't kde-doc members think their time would be much better served in not having to be a gate-keeper for document changes and additions? Don't kde-doc developers realize that many kde users would be happy to contribute to documentation efforts if it weren't purposefully so dificult to contribute? Why the "gate-keeper" mentality?</div>
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<div>Just curious. Seriously. Not a flame.</div>
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<div>-Mark Shelby </div>