[APBeta] Documentation using a wiki

[Brian Chaffins]

I've not been very vocal on this forum because I'm mostly still learning Astroplanner. But for what its worth I would contribute however I can. I manage a few mediawiki webs and edit them daily at my job as a network engineer. We use wiki internally for technical documentation although we don't seem to be very good at finding the time to organize the some 5000 pages into anything but a pile of searchable pages.

Brian

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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