I agree with this viewpoint - a wiki would still be useful for drafts, collaboration, etc.
Finished information for users at least, could be published to a guide-like user documentation. When I said I was anti-wiki, I meant from a "user" point of view - someone who is new to Inkscape generally needs a more structured approach to documentation than a wiki (such as a "Getting Started" section as you mention).
Cheers, duckgoesoink
On Dec 15, 2010, at 5:28 PM, Néstor Díaz Valencia wrote:
Hi,
Though I just wrote I agree with Steven, now I feel I didn't say anything productive.
I think the wiki should go into the django site, but any information stable enough should go to an structured place meanwhile experiments and drafts may stay in a wikilike place.
I wouldn't say I'm anti-wiki like Ian expressed, in my experience wikis are useful for information developing and collaboration in a moving forward enviroment (kind of trunk + branches subversion for code), but for final users you release one and just one tar.gz (a subversion tag) Sorry for the poor comparison.
The menu structure is similar to the mindmap some of us elaborated plus de "Getting started" section which I feel is good to have.
Cheers, n3storm
El 15/12/10 09:18, Hinerangi Courtenay escribió:
However I'm a bit anti-wiki - in my experience if they're not wikipedia.org they're usually too chaotic for normal people to make any sense of, they're randomly updated, have very inconsistent writing styles, have many unfinished pages, and information can get scattered/duplicated. Looking at the current wiki, there is a lot of general information, much of which would be useful to have on the main website if tidied up (I assume the website would be updated regularly by people assigned to keep info up to date).
Anywho, just my two cents.
Cheers, Hinerangi Courtenay (duckgoesoink)