[Python-Dev] New Pythondoc by effbot (original) (raw)

Fredrik Lundh fredrik at pythonware.com
Mon Jan 23 16:42:24 CET 2006


BJörn Lindqvist wrote:

> > Have you studied wikipedia's approach? It's multi-layered and worth > > learning from (start with their FAQ on editing). > > > > (And by the way, I am not advocating writing the docs as one big > > wikipedia -- only the user commentary.) > > to clarify, I'm advocating maintaining the docs via a restricted wiki-like > system, and using a blog-style discussion board or a wiki to collect non- > specific user commentary.

Why does it have to be "wiki-like"? Why can't it be a wiki? MediaWiki seem to work pretty well for a lot of software projects that have put their documentation in a wiki. Talk pages for commentary and primary pages for reviewed content.

semantics, semantics, semantics (see earlier posts on this topic).

but sure, a wiki engine with support for custom source syntax (to support python-oriented semantic markup) and section editing could work.

(moinmoin has the former, but not the latter, afaik).



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