OK. My Wikiholism is advancing to the next level and
to feed that I would like to consolidate MediaWiki's
documentation on meta. The reasons are two-fold; 1)
there are already forks in documentation development
between meta, SourceForge, Lee's webpages, and various
Wikipedia namespace pages (not to mention other
duplication; such as in other Wikimedia projects) 2) I
would like to understand the beast known as MediaWiki
so that after I learn PHP I can advance to
uber-Wikiholic and port over the WikiBook
functionality from PyWiki and tweak it for use in
Wikibooks.
I don't want to step on anybody's toes, so I would
like to know who is currently involved with creating
documentation? Is there anybody working on
coordinating documentation efforts? If so, then I
could work with that person instead of leading this
effort on my own. It would also be helpful to know
where current documentation resides.
Currently on meta:
MediaWiki
How to become a MediaWiki hacker
Running MediaWiki on Windows
Database queries on MediaWiki
Text in MediaWiki
MediaWiki math markup
RDF spool
Wiki markup tables -- proposals
Wiki markup syntax - see Wikipedia DTD
meta.wikipedia.org technical issues
Sites using MediaWiki
Wikitax
On en.wikipedia:
Wikipedia:MediaWiki
Wikipedia:Software Phase III
Wikipedia:TeX markup
Wikipedia:Software Phase IV
Wikipedia:TeX markup
Wikipedia:GNU LilyPond support
Wikipedia:Edit summary
Whole bunch of how to use Wikipedia's software pages
(this will take some time since many of them have
Wikipedia-specific references).
I'm thinking about organizing all this between actual
documentation vs ideas about how MediaWiki should
work. Documentation can be further subdivided between
stuff for developers vs stuff for users. When we do
finally have the WikiBook functionality, then an
actual users guide and developer documentation guides
can be organized on meta (complete with a "print this
book" feature).
This is a long term undertaking but I think it is
worth the effort.
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
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