[Kde-pim] wikinew.kde.org to replace kontact.kde.org

[Ben Cooksley]

that sounds really cool,
what an easy way to do documentation, even from places where i don't
have the right apps

hope this becomes big

bcooksley

On 8/14/08, Thorsten Staerk <Thorsten at staerk.de> wrote:
> Hi Pimsters,
>
> a maintainer's day is hard: After some lucky inspired hours of programming
> your favorite application you think to yourself: "And still I have not
> updated the documentation". WOOSH, all your good feeling is away. And the
> next week you will be in a hotel that only provides www access to the
> internet, all other ports blocked. No chance to do an SVN commit to the
> KDE web page. And after that week you forgot what you wanted to change.
>
> Do you know this situation?
>
> But there is help: http://wikinew.kde.org allows you to migrate your
> documentation to a wiki. Since about one year I maintain ktimetracker's
> canonical page in a wiki, and I can tell it is worth the migration. Having
> spoken with a lot of people here at Akademy, I would like to tell you:
>
> * wiki.kde.org is seen as obsolete and ugly
> * we plan to keep techbase.kde.org for development, organizational,
> usability and other topics.
> * we plan to add userbase.kde.org for user topics ("what would interest
> your mother")
> * wiki.kde.org will redirect to userbase.kde.org in the long run
> * the new wiki userbase.kde.org is being prepared under the address
> wikinew.kde.org
> * I recommend that you move your application's user page from
> kontact.kde.org to wikinew.kde.org. And that you redirect the old site to
> the wiki.
>
> The advantages are obvious:
> * if a user criticizes your application's documentation, you can just tell
> him "then update it"
> * we lower the barrier for new contributors - we get more help
> * users contribute and improve the documentation - less work for us
> * you can work even if you only have www access
> * I will contribute to your page. Promised ;)
>
> So, let's all start our documentation work at http://wikinew.kde.org
>
> Thorsten
>
>
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