Ed Singleton wrote: > This would be a perfect situation for a wiki. I think it would be a > good experiment to have a wiki containing the documentation (separate > from the main documentation and clearly marked experimental for the > moment), and to see if it did self-organise as wikis often do.
agreed. > It would greatly reduce the work need by the people currently > responsible for documentation (they just have to read through and make > sure things are correct) and if a page has been significantly improved > by the community and double checked by an expert, it could be promoted > to the official version of the documentation. absolutely. (and promoting could simply be done by tagging a given wiki revision as the official source, using something like http://effbot.org/django-pageview or a static version thereof, as the front-end renderer) > If the whole thing descends into chaos, the wiki (pages) could just be > deleted and we continue with the current system. > > As Python has such an excellent community, it would be a shame not to > give them more responsibility in this area the entire python.org site (and Python) would benefit for improved support for micro-contributions, but I doubt that will ever happen under the current regime. > (I'm actually tempted to just copy and paste each page from the > tutorial into the current wiki but I'd hate for it all to be deleted > after doing that). just do it! </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
