Guys,<br><br>I do appreciate your invitations and believe me, the "gears are turning". The issue for me -- please allow me to speak plainly and if offense is taken I apologize in advance -- is that IMHO Wiki and Media Wiki are not suitable platforms for writing technical documentation, and perhaps one of the reasons why the WordPress documentation is not up to the same quality as WordPress code. But I've been seriously thinking about this, what needs to happen (again IMHO) is an open-source Winhelp-clone system powered by WordPress, that would be equivalent to my semi-proprietary system see for instance:<br>
<br><a href="http://wpacademy.tv/about-wordpress-webinar-marathon.htm">http://wpacademy.tv/about-wordpress-webinar-marathon.htm</a><br><br>But would also be multi-authoring (which mine is not). I think its doable, we just need to find coders, I can project-manage perhaps. Lorelle you know some of the people at <a href="http://wordpress.tv">wordpress.tv</a>., I have an old email of yours that mentions some major documentation effort happening there, can you send me personal mail <a href="mailto:marc@wpacademy.tv">marc@wpacademy.tv</a> with that information again? Anyone else interested as well, just let me know, this would be WAY cool if we could pull it off.<br>
<br>Thanks<br><br>Marc<br><br><br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 7:13 PM, Andrea Rennick <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andrea@ronandandrea.com" target="_blank">andrea@ronandandrea.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">As noted above, there's two ways you can contribute:<div><br></div><div>- jump in to the codex and start writing / editing / correcting information</div>
<div><br></div><div>- help with the user manual, which right now is a bunch of HTML pages. </div>
<div><br></div><div>This may or may not change. there are PLENTY of pages right now we need people to edit so we can push an official user guide to actual users. That's way more important to use that what software is used to produce it (at this time).</div>
<div><br></div><div>If you really want to jump in, get working, and earn a name for yourself, the user manual is the best place to start. We would honestly love to have you contribute. See this page <a href="http://make.wordpress.org/support/user-manual/" target="_blank">http://make.wordpress.org/support/user-manual/</a> for the current work list and you can also let me know personally which ones you'd like to start with. We have a weekly chat in IRC on Thursdays at 5pm Eastern for discussing specifics.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>a.<div><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 5:29 PM, Marc Beneteau <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:docs@manifesting.net" target="_blank">docs@manifesting.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">mm, sorry for wasting everyone's time, let me take up this conversation privately. <br><br>I am just trying to understand if its possible to have a Wiki-compatible (multiple-authors) system that does what Winhelp does. Winhelp is the documentation format for virtually all commercial software for a reason, I would love it if we could do something similar for WordPress<span><font color="#888888"><br>
<br>Marc<br><br><br><br></font></span><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Juan Correa <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pottersys@gmail.com" target="_blank">pottersys@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div>
<div><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 5:15 PM, Marc Beneteau <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:docs@manifesting.net" target="_blank">docs@manifesting.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Has there been any interest or any discussion in building a Wordpress manual on Media Wiki? I could get behind that.<br></blockquote></div><br></div>In fact, the WordPress Codex is powered by MediaWiki:
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