On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Joshua A. Andler wrote:
I don't know that it's really wise of me to do this, but I will offer myself up to handle/maintain inkscape's documentation if there is currently no other individual doing so. Currently it appears that everyone chips in (although I may be dead wrong). As I've mentioned before, I'll be fairly useless on the programming side, and if there is a need in this area I'd be willing to step up to the plate. I'm mainly talking about the documentation w/in inkscape, however copying it to the wiki should be relatively simple and I'd be willing to do that as well. Please let me know if this would be helpful or if there is even a need for it or not. And if there is someone who already oversees the documentation, let me know who it is so I can offer up some help.
Yes, this would be a great way to contribute; we definitely need improved documentation across the board. Documentation was very poor when we started, and fortunately it's gotten tons better since we started, but it's far from being where it needs to be.
By documentation w/in inkscape do you mean the items in the Help menu such as the tutorials, or documentation within the inkscape code?
Note that there is also an Inkscape manual that some folks have worked on; this is separate from the tutorials in the Help menu, and definitely welcomes help.
In general we don't copy documentation to wiki, but only because we want to only maintain one copy. If web-oriented versions of tutorials, manuals, etc. can be generated for the website, that sort of stuff is definitely valuable to have set up.
Bryce