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I was just wishing for an active community of users contributing to the documentation, and hoping for a simple way for users to easily contribute tidbits. Maybe the PHP team's approach might be more appealing that a Wiki? They certainly have successfully collected bazillions of helpful notes, suggestions, examples, etc. from many users. Then again, the user base of PHP is different than Hardened Gentoo. |
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> WiKi are not mirrored items. Gentoo uses .xml for all of it's documentation. |
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It could be crawled/snapshotted, then mirrored using appropriate links (e.g. if someone clicks "Edit") to the master copy. I'm doing something similar with a forum system, but it does not seem likely worth the effort, especially given the points below. MediaWiki at Wikipedia is mirrored, but probably not in the way you meant (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Servers). |
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> We did have a Hardened WiKi at one point (about a year ago). |
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> It did not see enough light from the user community so we stopped using it. |
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Ahhhh .. a fundamental limiting factor. |
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Br0mGreV wrote: |
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> .. user who want to print the handbook before installing .. |
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I've seen collections of hyperlinked documents with organized table of contents that permit sequential viewing / printing of all pages in the "book". |
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Joshua wrote: |
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> This is not an official documentation source .. |
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Oh. Ok. |
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Sven Vermeulen wrote: |
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> .. for Gentoo documentation I'd rather not use them .. |
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Yup, pretty much stuck with online editing for the Wiki's I've examined, but work is progressing on supporting offline editing for the MediaWiki family (see http://wikitravel.org/en/article/Wikitravel:Offline_Reader_Expedition), and already exists using Twiki and Hwiki under PalmOs. |
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Regarding other formats, see http://sourceforge.net/projects/wikipdf/. |
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Various options exist for mediawiki (used by http://wiki.gentoo-portage.com). |
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I'm not sure if mediawiki supports moderation of edits, before making them live. |
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Plone does, but that is a different ballgame. |
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Cheers, |
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Gavin |
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