[IAEP] wiki bot - a consolidated response

[Bernie Innocenti]

Seth Woodworth wrote:
> 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.

What kind of relation might we have with Anne?  I'm not sure we can
afford to hire a tech-writer at this time, but we could use some of
her time if she's willing to help.


> There have been a very few discussions about mirroring our wiki 
> elsewhere.

I'm willing to help if someone volunteers to do the other side of
the work.  Only, Mediawiki does not seem like the ideal tool for
a distributed wiki.


> 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.

What do you suggest exactly?


> 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.

For wordpress-mp, I was waiting for a few developers to step forward
and say: "yes, I would write on it".

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