Is there any thought to expanding this help/knowledge in a more wiki-based format?
While the comments section at the bottom of each documentation page is a start, it can quickly devolve into a question-reply format where you have to trace things back up to the original question. And while searching this group has been *enormously* helpful, the signal-to-noise ratio can be difficult (an issue w/ any group search really). I think something like the rails wiki (http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails) provides a good model - or at least a decent start. It's a much more lessons-learned approach with actual users (as opposed to exclusively overworked developers) adding content, comments, suggestions, and corrections. Learning Django, I found myself searching the tutorial, this group, the documentation, and the web writ large. As an example wiki page, a Views page that discusses the pros/cons/limitations to the admin interface, generic views, manipulators, rolling your own - are related topics that might benefit from being co-located. This is by no means a replacement for this group - it's the knowledge and experince of this group distilled. fyl wrote: > Adrian Holovaty wrote: > ... > If you have any > > questions, I'd encourage you to ask them; people on this mailing list > > are super-nice and helpful! > > > > Adrian > > > > -- > > Adrian Holovaty > > holovaty.com | djangoproject.com > > I have to agree completely here. I see so much knowledge being > distributed. I am sure you will see questions from me and/or other SSC > people when we get to the Drupal to Django work. > > I tend to at least skim this list every day and continually see > "important bits of wisdom". A lot of it becomes "gee, that will be > important when we get working" or "I don't want to make that mistake". > That, unfortunately, raises the issue of how to find that wisdom when > you actually need it. I continually have this problem with another web > site I did (nicaliving.com) and keep wanting to come up with an answer. > > While the answer isn't Django-unique, the high level of good > information on this list makes me want to find an answer. It is an > interesting question to me--probably because of being in the publishing > business anyway--because there is so much good information on the > Django web site itself and allowing comments augments the relatively > static content but there is still so much more here. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
