Hi Tobias

Looking at tiddlywiki.com I am finding plenty developer related
> information, especially concerning node.js, but also message
> specifications, etc.... which really are not basic user material, imho.
> Example: no user will be able to take something practical from
> FieldManglerWidget <http://tiddlywiki.com/#FieldManglerWidget>. and all
> the messages.
>

The /dev site is for material for JavaScript developers, and to a lesser
extent HTML and CSS. Material for end users running under Node.js is
intentionally on tiddlywiki.com.

In the case of the FieldManglerWidget, I think the problem is just that the
docs are out of date and confusing, but they still belong on tiddlywiki.com.

Is it planned to have all that migrated to http://tiddlywiki.com/dev/?
>

There is some material about message structures that should be moved but
otherwise the split is roughly as intended.


> I think it makes plenty sense to output all content of tw.com
> <http://tiddlywiki.com> (or perhaps only that with a dev field) stuffed
> into http://tiddlywiki.com/dev as shadow tiddlers.
> Is that even possible using some kind of cross-wiki inclusion when
> generating the lot using node.js?
>

I've thought about that too. We could include the docs from tiddlywiki.com
directly in /dev, but I think it may be more helpful to make the basic docs
available as a plugin so that other wikis can include them where needed.


> Also, I think it were good if - rather than prose titles -
> http://tiddlywiki.com/dev would be much more structured around a
> meaningful tag hierarchy, things like...
>
>    - Contribute
>    - Core
>    - node.js
>    - Github
>    - Plugins
>    - Widgets
>    - etc...
>
> I'm afraid the /dev site is not at all finished. It just aggregates two
different piles of docs, and I haven't had a chance to do any further
updates. Help welcome.


> Last but not least, could perhaps a dev space be set up for tw5 on
> tiddlyspace such that working on that content does not require all that git?
>

For making it easy for people to make content updates I actually favour
individuals editing a standalone version of the wiki, and then submitting
the wiki when they're happy with it. We can automate producing a pull
request from a submitted wiki.

The trouble with baking a shared space on tiddlyspace.com into
tiddlywiki.com is that then I have to take great care to check all the
contributions. In the case of the space used for the content for
classic.tiddlywiki.com, we had to make the space restricted to just a few
authors. The end result was much the same: there was a big hurdle for
casual contributors. Furthermore, I think a shared space can actually
discourage experimentation because of the way that every change is
instantly visible to other users, and may be propagated to tiddlywiki.com.
Many contributors would rather experiment with their changes in private
before submitting them for review.


> Or is and will it be remain the strategy to have all that content managed
> via the github repo?
>

I'm not at all happy with the barriers to contribution that github
represents. Over the last few weeks I've put a lot of effort into
engineering a way for translators to submit translations without using
github, and I plan to do the same for tiddlywiki.com content.

Best wishes

Jeremy


>
> Best wishes, Tobias.
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