Re: [Gnumed-devel] GNUmed website

[Sebastian Hilbert]

I like what I read. I don't know anything about wikis so I think you should 
decide which one to use. Are you willing to take on this project ?
Once you made a decision please contact Horst
to sort out the details with the server.

I consider unifying the webpages very important but it does not need to be 
done in a week. As long as it evolves steadily that's fine. 

I still got some questions. We need to comes up with a table of contents for 
the new site or gnumed.org respectively. Let's not forget Tony's site already 
offers a wiki, although I don't know how well it performs. I must admit I 
have never actually used it.

Sebastian

On Monday 15 December 2003 06:19, David Grant wrote:
> Ian Haywood wrote:
> >On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 23:21:50 -0500
> >
> >David Grant <address@hidden> wrote:
> >>Although I like wiki's, how do you keep manuals updated with the content
> >>in the wiki?  Wikis are great for doing all sorts of things with, but I
> >>don't know how to do a manual in wiki and keep it synchronized with an
> >>HTML docbook style manual.
> >
> >An interesting project......
> >
> >The people at Wikibooks.org are likely to come up with a solution
> >at some point [probably long before we have a user's manual longer than 10
> > pages]
> >
> >In the meantime. I think  the advantages
> >outweigh this problem, as the docs need to be able to evolve quickly and
> > have numerous people work on them. Certainly for the developer's manual
> > we should move to Wiki, as it's unlikely people will be printing it
> >out (the main advantage of Docbook)
>
> Good call...this is an awesome idea to develop the manual using a wiki,
> since you are right; it needs to evolve quickly and there are many
> people.  This would totally reduce the barrier to entry for me, as right
> now it is not possible (at least not easily) for me to change the
> manuals.  It involves e-mailing people, which is just a waste of
> everyone's time.
>
> And I just realized, that docs like these usually have very little
> formatting and can easily be ported to docbook later.  And once the
> project is mature, the docs will evolve more slowly, eliminating the
> need for the wiki-manual in a way, and someone can just update the
> docbook one.  Or by that time, wikibooks.org will have something.
>
> It should be possible to print from a wiki, at least from
> wikipedia/wikibooks there is a printer-friendly mode.
>
> Only to decide what wiki system to use?  I've used phpwiki (I don't like
> it that much), and twiki (pretty good).  Of course I've used wikipedia
> but I've never actually implemented my own wiki using their code.
>