On Thu, May 04, 2023 at 02:39:01PM +0200, Peter Boy wrote:
> The wiki might be another place:
>
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Project_Wiki
Not really. Fedora decided some time ago to migrate all documentation from
wiki to Antorra CMS pages. This is not uncontroversial and everyone may
find it good or not. But that's where we are at any rate.
Robyn Bergeron¹ said: "Wiki is 'where information kills itself'". Wikis
_can_ be amazing platforms, but making them so requires discipline and
dedicated curation. It works best when the wiki itself _is_ the project.
Think of all of the obsessively-updated-and-complete wikis dedicatd to
various computer games. Or TV Tropes². The Arch wiki is like this, too: in
some ways, the wiki IS Arch.
Ours was never like that, and grew in many different directions and gets
used for over a dozen completely different things. This means it's really
hard to find anything, hard to know if something is up to date or still
relevant, and — perhaps most crucially — a reader is always one click away
from something that will be misleading, confusing, obsolete, or just plain
wrong.
New docs site isn't perfect, but it is, at least, _docs_.
....
1. My predecessor as FPL, for the new folks around here.
2. Standard warning: Do not visit TV Tropes if you value the next 10 hours
of your life. :)
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Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader