Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki documentation -> meta

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) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)Wikipedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l