[kde-doc-english] wiki

[Mark Shelby]

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?

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is so out of date and incomplete for *any* release version that it would be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!

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?

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?

Just curious. Seriously. Not a flame.

-Mark Shelby
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