helping organize x.org documentation

[Oliver McFadden]

On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 06:34 +0200, ext Peter Hutterer wrote:
> On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 03:23:32AM +0300, Oliver McFadden wrote:
> > On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 01:55 +0200, ext Tiago Vignatti wrote:
> > > Matt,
> > > 
> > > On 05/26/2010 04:12 PM, Matt Dew wrote:
> > > > Ok here's a summary of current changes:
> > > >
> > > > 1) I used kernelnewbies.org as the template, so this page doesn't look
> > > > like the xorg wiki.  (probably least important diff),
> > > 
> > > I guess you can remove "XOrg" from the top and let only the logo there.
> > > 
> > > Another issue to worry about is regarding the wiki engine. Is MoinMoin 
> > > good enough for us? I'm totally dumb regarding these technologies but we 
> > > should choose one easily to upgrade, maintain, customize, etc.
> > 
> > (I'm just jumping into the middle of the conversation, so my apologies
> > if I have missed something.)
> > 
> > It's been a long time since I've looked at wiki software, but I remember
> > the search engines being terrible except on MediaWiki.
> > 
> > MediaWiki also has a lot of cool features, is well maintained
> > (Wikipedia...), and has support for 3rd party extensions:
> > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:AllPages/Extension: (unorganized
> > list, but you get the idea.)
> 
> We've had this discussion a few times already. Bottom line is - the wiki
> engine can be perfect but if the content is crap the wiki is worthless.
> I can see how setting up a new wiki would be more exciting than polishing
> the existing content into shape, but that doesn't really address the issue.

Right, that's true. I would suggest switching over to MediaWiki at some
point though. This could of course be after cleaning up the docs.

-- Oliver.