On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 10:57 PM, Jaakko Helleranta.com < [email protected]> wrote:
> I don't have a good enough internet access at hand here but a few thoughts: > * excellent! > * if/since u go the open source way for the book (which LearnOSM.org is > too, eih?): > It is open source right now. > - would it make any sense to still keep it in a/the wiki and go "the > WikiTravel" way creating an OSM version. Of the WikiTravelPress where a > designated set of wikipages is set to create a book(let) that can b ordered > from Amazon with the latest (in WikiTravel I think it's approximately > monthly??) updates. > ... MediaWiki's wiki-to-PDF feature/plugin(?) would b a good addition to > the selection palette (not sure if the osm currently has that..). > I just learned about MediaWiki's collection extension today, but I still think it's way too easy to get crappy, unhelpful content on a wiki. A book or "monolithic document" behaves more like a releasable software project: accepting patches and bugs and is easier to write to a specific audience rather than a bunch of "if this, then do that"'s. The wiki is a great way to collect lots of ideas for documentation, but if we don't have anyone grooming the wiki then it quickly grows unhelpful.
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