On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Juliusz Gonera <[email protected]>wrote:
> I'll use that thread as an opportunity to suggest something I've been > thinking about lately and that is related not only to mobile. As it is now, > all the documentation is available online. That is usually OK because > nowadays we have Internet almost everywhere. However, we should remember > that not all the world is like that. There are still countries where > broadband connection is not that common. What if someone from such a > country wants to work on MediaWiki or any of its extensions? It's very > difficult for them to browse the documentation. Also, I found myself in a > similar situation several times, e.g. on a plane or train without wireless > Internet. > Yeah - this is a really good point, and I've been bitten by this too whilst traveling, during power outages, etc. What about making the documentation available offline? I thought about > including it in the source tree, but I'm not sure how this could be done. > Is there any tool we could use for that? If not, maybe we should write one? > > I'm not sure how much interest there might be in making the docs available > offline. Perhaps we should start a separate thread on Wikitech? > > Overall I think this is an *awesome* idea - though I think it is probably worth making a distinction between team-specific documentation and technical documentation (or maybe not?). The best place to bring this up would be wikitech-l. -- Arthur Richards Software Engineer, Mobile [[User:Awjrichards]] IRC: awjr +1-415-839-6885 x6687
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