On Sun, 1 Jan 2006, Hubert Feyrer wrote:

> On Sat, 31 Dec 2005, David Brownlee wrote:
>> 	A wiki significantly reduces the barrier to contributing to
>> 	documentation, and works very well for _some_ areas. Ideally
>> 	it works as an adjunct to a main set of documentation and or
>> 	guides. It can serve as a source of both information and
>> 	contributers to pull across into a more formal set of docs,
>> 	thought there are areas best left in a wiki.
>>
>> 	I would support linking to one from the main site and poentially
>> 	each port page.
>
> The problem mentioned was outdated documentation on the NetBSD website.
> I don't see how a wiki would help in getting that documentation less 
> outdated. What it will lead to is redundant documentation, which IMHO is the 
> worst thing possible.

 	The important aspect is that it allows more people to become
 	involved. It may work well for some ports but not others, or may
 	even not work at all, but I believe it is very much worth trying.

 	It is www-wip in the same way as pkgsrc-wip.

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