The cost of entry IMOHO is way to high. With Wikipedia I don't even have to be logged in to edit. They do semi protect and protect some areas of Wikipedia meaning you do have to log in or have right but most of it is open. I have on many occasion thought I would like to fix something in Blender's manual but there was no way I was going through all that just to fix one mistake. I am sure I am not alone in this.
BTW I want to clearly state that Aaron Carlisle (sorry I forgot your name before) was and is a great help but I should not need him to do this. I should not need to install software to do simple edits or learn a new markup language, even if it is easy. So no point beating a dead house. I think it needs to change. We are certainly losing a lot of help by it being so complicated to chip in. I read over the other conversation and found this quote. I think it sums up the problem, as I see it, very well. "koil: I've reviewed the ideas posted on this topic, and given the matter a good deal of thought. My reaction is mixed. In theory, I wouldn't have any problem with porting the User Manual for Blender to the Sphinx platform, (or some other one, if it be deemed reasonable and proper to do so). However, since Blender is open source, and community developed, I think it that it is imperative that there be mechanism for maintaining user development of the documentation, too. And, unless I totally misunderstand the new platform (and that's not an outlandish possibility), moving the whole manual to the proposed new platform is going to reduce the contributions to the documentation by members of the community by a couple of orders of magnitude, and unless there is a sizeable cohort of documentation waiting in the wings, I'm loathe to disenfranchise a significant number of contributors to the documentation." It has been almost a year since the change, I think. How has the rate of editing changed? It the quality better? Is it going better now? Do we have any stats? Douglas _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
