Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
Andre Schnabel wrote,
No -this does not answer any question. The wiki has been
established without any licensing restrictions.
Frank Peters wrote:
We need to look at how we can make the wiki usable for
documentation purposes
Is there any reason why the wiki cannot contain a "user documentation"
section that users are encouraged to read, and that is linked to and
from the Documentation Project's first page? In other words, have some
of OOo's user docs available on the wiki itself, for use by the public.
As far as I understand, this should be possible. Furthermore, I see
the following cases when using the wiki. Please correct me, if I am wrong:
Creating new documentation content
If we create new documentation content on the wiki, it must be
created using the PDL to be compatible with doc.oo.o
Moving documentation content from doc.oo.o to the wiki
If we *move existing* documentation content from the web to the wiki
this content already is under PDL and there shouldn't be a problem. A
license note should state the situation.
Using existing wiki content
If we *use existing* documentation from the wiki to publish
somewhere else we need to check if it was published under a
license. If there is no license, what do we need to do? If there
is a license other than PDL, what do we need to do to be able to republish?
There is a considerable amount of docs available already (particularly
developer documentation).
I am thinking about cases like producing PDF or html content from
wiki content, using the wiki for collaboration and pdf/html for
publication.
In the past I was very sceptical of wikis as user documentation, but now
that I have used some very good ones (eg for Ubuntu Linux), I think they
Interestingly, they have a seperate section "community docs". I wonder
if this also is due to the licensing hassle.
are an important -- perhaps essential -- addition to books and other
forms of documentation that can be downloaded by users. Wiki
documentation can easily be linked to and from other information in any
form and various locations.
I would think that cross-linking is not an issue at all.
Frank
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