[IAEP] wiki bot - a consolidated response

[Seth Woodworth]

> > c.  Users manual. Sugar Labs maintains a generic users manual which
> > distros can customize for their own use.
>
> I'm not sure if this is necessary. The documentation for GNOME
> applications for example is kept with the upstream project. Perhaps
> the distribution manuals should just link to the sugarlabs one.


If Sugar labs were dedicated to Documentation, they would be wise to tap
Anne Gentle as a resource.  She has spend a lot of time working on a manual
over at FLOSS Manuals that has largely been ignored.  The Amazing Anne is a
professional tech-writer and a darn good one.  Sugarlabs could do a lot
worse than working closely with Anne.


>
>
> > h.  Local partial replication of wiki.  I had not thought of this
> >  before.  It seems potentially very useful.  Local deployments could use
> > wiki content from upstream to augment their local content.  I'm thinking
> > of a model similar to TV programing with syndicated and local content.
>


There have been a very few discussions about mirroring our wiki elsewhere.
During the Activities-page Doom controversy my argument against censorship
was that our wiki wouldn't be the source for children to get documentation
or activities.  But nothing better has arisen yet.  Distribution countries
would be well served by a large subsection of our wiki as documentation.
Much on the wiki is fragmented, but it's better than nothing.

A User-wiki could be tagged and scraped from Sugarlabs and w.l.o with the
right software, tagging, and cleanup.  Franchesca Slade, an intern at olpc
this summer, is working on some wiki restructuring now.  Mel and I have been
trying to cleanup w.l.o for months off and on.

Along with a wiki on the school server, we could easily add a wordpress or
multi-user word press for a few mb of space once we are running LAMP.

Seth
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