alan mcclellan wrote: > Ben, thanks for driving Doc Leadership meeting. Good discussion. > > There was healthy input about the role of wikis in open source project > documentation. I recently blogged about a conversation I had at Community One > with Karsten Wade from Fedora on this subject. (See > http://blogs.sun.com/docexchange/). The gist is, Fedora worked through some > of the same issues we're talking about with regard to structured or > unstructured content (although they admittedly didn't have volume of existing > documentation that Sun provides for OpenSolaris). Their level of community > contribution went up significantly as they moved to a wiki-based contribution > model. They then invested some time/effort in converting into a structured > format for outputting to multiple formats. > > -alan
We have been moving OpenOffice.org documentation from the SGML source to Wiki, and there is a noticeable increase in community participation in the OOo documentation. C
