Hi Brynn, thank you for all the info you provided.

The question that remains is: there are a lot of info for developers, which is good, of course.
But not everyone is a developer. We all understand the more developers we have for our project, the better.

But we also need to encourage our user base to grow, specially to convert part of our user base into volunteers. We can always use more hands/brains!
But (sorry for the 3rd but in a row) we need to make sure we have some sort of place to point new users on how to start translating things (we have decent material today, but we could improved things (at least on the Windows aspect/users side of things))

And I am lacking a place where our users could read more about specific things they could help the project (translating inkscape interface, translating tutorials, translating the website, onboarding more people to help with bug triaging, ideas to redesign interface, and so forth...).

What do you think?

Happy new year!

Thanks,
Victor


On Sun, Dec 29, 2019 at 11:07 PM brynn <brynn@frii.com> wrote:
As far as I understand, when the current website started to be developed
(approx 5 years ago) the website was to be groomed towards users and the
wiki was going to be groomed to be development-facing.

So putting any articles benefitting users in the wiki would not be
appropriate.

This sounds like it might be a borderline case, where an article on how
to write themes and create icons sets would benefit both developers and
users.  Perhaps such an article should be cross posted - both in the
wiki and in the gallery?  (Although such an article would need to be
written in 2 different ways - one in developer-speak, and the other
which non-tech-savy users could understand....)

As far as the GitLab repo, while I have not heard anything about which
group it's meant to serve, to me, GL is primarily for developers as well.

It seems like I heard a whisper, maybe 3 or even 4 years ago, about
wanting to close the wiki.  I don't remember what was supposed to
replace it, but GL had not been mentioned at that time.  As far as I
understand, GL has a wiki, doesn't it?

Yep, that's alls I know :p

Happy New Year!

brynn

On 12/29/2019 11:08 PM, Victor Westmann wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I was just taking a look at Blender's Wiki
> (https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Main_Page) and I was happy to identify
> they are using a similar wiki engine as we are. But I also noticed that
> they have a more modern (beautiful?) visual than we do. Is this
> something we are able to implement in our wiki as well?
>
> Besides this... are we going to revamp our wiki and centralize
> documentation material in it? Or are we going to readthedocs? Or are we
> going to centralize our efforts in the Gitlab wiki feature? Please let
> me know.
>
> I am really excited to read the article on how to write themes and icon
> sets for inkscape 1.x once it is ready.
>
> Thanks,
> Victor
>
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