There's been the goal to incorporate "stable" parts of the wiki into the official manual. In practice, this happens very little. (I just adding "Converting from Subversion to the manual, which was existed on the wiki for a long time).
The wiki is a lot easier to edit, with a syntax that is documented right on the edit page. Editing the official manual means editing Latex. While it's not particularly difficult, I can't see it ever being as easy as the wiki.
Considering the wiki is full of valuable documentation itself, should we consider shipping the wiki somehow, so people can use that documentation offline?
The MoinMoin wiki software use has a special feature, in that someone has a made a version designed to run on desktop computers. It would be possible to write a script that automates grabbing the pages from the official wiki, bundling them this way, and shipping a working wiki that people could use offline.
That could be a bad idea, because it's a little complicated, and it might encourage people to edit their local wikis instead of contributing to the central one.
A far simpler route would probably to take a snapshot of the wiki as rendered HTML, and ship that as static pages. That would use no special desktop technology and send people back to the central wiki to contribute.
While both options are interesting to consider, the larger question is whether to bother at all, considering how common network access seems to be.
So ask you, other darcs users: If darcs shipped a copy of the wiki as part of the documentation-- would you use it? Or is visiting http://wiki.darcs.net/ good enough for you?
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