On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 01:15, Andrew Ballantine wrote: > I agree that a Wiki could very easily get out of control if not > supervised, but moderated sensitively it could produce some excellent > results.Not only could a Wiki environment be used to document existing > versions of the system, it could be used by users to define how they > would like the next version to behave.
I think there should be some release cycle with two versions of the document. stable -- static not editable, with links to the current dev version | | \ | in developement -- wiki style editable by everyone | / | next stable version So there might be some maintainers which have to look at the quality of the static version. > I also appreciate that the choice of wiki engine is critical to give > the right control and the ability to convert the content to the > desired mark-up language for easy processing to other document types. An export format is either debiandoc or the new subset of docbook discussed on this list. > I would be interested to hear your comments, objections or > encouragement in such a scheme. I would be prepared to host a web site > for this purpose and to moderate it with the help of your good selves. At the beginning you can have a look at http://wiki.debian.net . The wiki is based on KWiki(http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/05/14/kwiki.html). Its engine is written in perl and easy to extend. Maybe you can add the wanted functionality there. Regards -- Peter Hoffmann
