[APBeta] Documentation using a wiki

[Marius Strom]

Why don't you appoint a core team of folks to police the process, keeping 
the editing to a core group of folks to begin with.  As it gets more widely 
used, then it can open up further.

-----Original Message----- 
From: Paul Rodman
Sent: Sunday, June 20, 2010 10:42 AM
To: AstroPlanner Beta Testers
Subject: Re: [APBeta] Documentation using a wiki

Initially, I need to put together a tentative table of contents and then 
start adding pages/"articles" which you can poke at/add to/edit, etc.

I suspect I might need to add some control over who gets to edit stuff. I 
don't want to have to spend my time policing the process.

Paul R.


On Jun 20, 2010, at 10:35 AM, Phil Gaskill wrote:

> I've done a fair amount of Wikipedia editing, so I guess that qualifies 
> me. ;-)
>
> So count me in.
>
> I don't know what your timeframe is for the release. I'm pretty busy at 
> the moment, with some family health problems to take care of, so I might 
> not be much help initially. But I'm definitely good for at least the 
> continuing stuff.
>
> --Phil
>
>
> On Jun 20, 2010, at 12:33 PM, Paul Rodman wrote:
>
>> I am thinking of creating a wiki (a la Wikipedia) for providing 
>> documentation for AstroPlanner V2* (in particular the "how to" stuff. The 
>> reference stuff will still be via embedded help). As a matter of 
>> interest, how many of you are
>>
>> a. Familiar with editing a wiki** (in this case it will probably be 
>> MediaWiki, as used by Wikipedia I believe)?
>> and/or
>> b. Would be interested in creating content for, or editing existing 
>> content of, such a wiki?
>>
>> Apart from (possibly) speeding up the release process, it would allow 
>> continuing feedback. e.g. if someone needs to use AstroPlanner to predict 
>> variable star peaks and this is not in the wiki, it could be added.
>>
>> I have also heard, but only in passing, that it is also possible to 
>> produce a PDF from a Wiki (for those who like printed manuals).
>>
>> Paul R.
>>
>> * Thanks to tester Marius Strom for the idea.
>> ** I'm actually quite ignorant of these things. I spent yesterday 
>> afternoon installing wiki software and starting to figure out how it is 
>> edited, etc. Turns out to be quite easy.

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