[ODE] MediaWiki on SF.net (was: ODE Doc & Manual ?)

[J. Perkins]

On 4/7/06, Jean de Largentaye <jlargentaye at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, I've attempted to install MediaWiki on my usual webhost
> (free.fr), and got it to work, after a fashion. However, it seems that
> getting it to work on sf.net requires different changes, so the meager
> experience from getting to work isn't going to help for SF.net :P

Sorry to take so long getting back, I needed to make some progress on
my own project. Otherwise I might forget why I need ODE in the first
place. ;)

I'd like to devote what time I have right now toward getting the
current documentation converted to Doxygen. Once that is done I will
try to install MediaWiki (or whatever system people recommend) on
opende.sourceforge.net. Then I will make you, or anyone else who would
like to volunteer, an admin and let you go to work. I think it should
go on the SF.net server because it is accessible to all of the project
admins, and not just Russ.

In the meantime, it would be worthwhile to sort through what is on the
existing wiki. In my experience, a wiki works best when it is given a
solid initial framework. If it looks like a book, with obvious
sections, people tend to contribute more and produce better quality
information. If it starts as just an empty page you get chaos.

So my $0.02: troll the list for recommendations on how a wiki should
be structured. Every time I've asked for advice I've been flooded with
good suggestions (thanks everyone!). The one suggestion I might make
is that it would be nice to have an area on the wiki that corresponds
to each section in the main documentation. That we can put a link in
the docs like "Discuss this on the wiki", so people have a place to
put related tips and questions.

Jason