discuss: DocBook Wiki--was it considered?
Subject:
Re: [discuss] DocBook Wiki--was it considered?
From:
Sean Peterson ####@####.####
Date:
19 Aug 2008 20:49:21 +0100
Message-Id: <48AB23BE.8080703@gmail.com>
I'm going to give docbookwiki and docbookeasy a try now that I have the
VMs and some time. I'll post my finding here.
-Sean.
Randy Kramer wrote:
> Martin,
>
> Do you mind if I forward your last post (this one) to the
> ####@####.#### mailing list? They are talking about (I think that is
> something less than "considering" ;-) the use of a wiki to help with their
> documentation problems.
>
> BTW1, that was the reason I raised this question on this list, but I was glad
> to see you take the bull by the horns and try it out. I may edit your post
> slightly, but I haven't tried that so far--if there is some editing you'd
> like to do, please feel free--the essential points I want to get to them that
> are that it was easy to install on Debian (to try out), and it seems to work
> reasonably well for editing Docbook.
>
> BTW2, I do have a question for you--when you say "i.e. endless unindexed pages
> which are hell on wheels to navigate through" are you referring to the
> situation on the Docbook wiki, or are you referring to wikis in
> general--i.e., are you saying that the Docbook wiki doesn't have the typical
> wiki navigation features (like links, the Recent Changes page, a search
> function)?
>
> If there is a problem with navigation, my first thought would be to install a
> Google dedicated search thingie (like I use on
> Wikilearn--http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/WebSearch). Last time I
> went looking for it on Google's site it seemed to be gone, but I don't seem
> why it wouldn't still be legal to use--ohh, wait, maybe they could restrict
> it on a copyright / trademark based on use of their Google logo--but, if they
> do, really all the search does is the same thing anyone can do on a Google
> search, restrict it to a particular site by including "site:twiki.org" (and
> in Wikilearn's case, a few other automatic search terms, like "Wikilearn"),
> so the principle is the same.
>
> I may repeat the last part (about the search) on the tldp list if search is an
> issue--I thought sending the request to forward your post to the kde list was
> more appropriate off list.
>
> regards,
> Randy Kramer
>
>
> On Monday 18 August 2008 06:21 pm, Martin Wheeler wrote:
>
>> Well folks -- I hate to be the one bringing micturition to the
>> pyrotechnics, specially when you're so happy and all -- but I've just
>> installed docbookwiki ['apt-get install docbookwiki'] on one of my servers
>> and bingo! -- instant working online docbook editor: producing plaintext,
>> HTML and LaTeX as well. No probs.
>> [Whereas I'm *still* fighting moinmoin to get it to do what I want.]
>>
>> That does it for me -- it may not give me all the bells and whistles of
>> the usual wiki environment (i.e. endless unindexed pages which are hell
>> on wheels to navigate through); but it *does* provide a collaborative
>> book-editing environment, which is fundamentally all I want from it.
>>
>> Perhaps we ought to re-think our strategy a little here -- maybe even have
>> *two* wikis (docbookwiki for nothing but book-editing; other wiki for the
>> social chatter and ancillary discussions.)
>>
>> What do folks think?
>> (I advise trying out docbookwiki before making up your mind. Seriously.]
>>
>> Maybe even get some of our programming folks to start working on it?
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