From dirk at haun-online.de Sat May 9 09:26:43 2009 From: dirk at haun-online.de (Dirk Haun) Date: Sat, 9 May 2009 15:26:43 +0200 Subject: [geeklog-users] The Geeklog Wiki needs YOUR help! Message-ID: <20090509132643.653688770@smtp.haun-online.de> The Geeklog Wiki, , does contain a lot of useful information, but probably wasn't exactly the most attractive place to go to for help, mostly due to the duplicate documentation trees (for 1.3 and 1.4). We've finally managed to merge these two trees back together and get rid of (most) of the duplicate content. This is now the point where we would welcome input and additions from the Geeklog community. For example, there's a lot of content there regarding development, but very little about the actual daily use of Geeklog. Also, the installation instructions are in a state of disarray after an attempt to merge the instructions from the two documentation trees - both of which were out of date to begin with. I guess it would be best to start over fresh here and describe the installation process as of Geeklog 1.6. I wonder if anyone from outside the core team would be interested in trying to write up new installation instructions in "plain English"? Jason C. Levine did a good job at that a few years ago, but the installation process has changed a lot since then and it's time for a fresh start, IMO. In the long run, I'd like the Geeklog Wiki to become the main source for the Geeklog documentation. We will always ship some form of documentation with Geeklog, but the wiki could become the master source from which that documentation is fed and updated. And things like the Plugin API and theme documentation should probably only live in the wiki. So, if you ever thought about contributing to Geeklog but you couldn't because you're not a programmer, here's an opportunity to help us out. You will need an account for the wiki, but we're giving those out freely (self registration is only disabled because of those pesky spammers). Small contributions, such as clarifying sentences, correcting typos, or adding links between existing pages are also very welcome. bye, Dirk -- http://www.geeklog.net/ http://geeklog.info/ From richard at pacdat.net Sat May 9 11:57:53 2009 From: richard at pacdat.net (Richard Pitt) Date: Sat, 09 May 2009 08:57:53 -0700 Subject: [geeklog-users] The Geeklog Wiki needs YOUR help! In-Reply-To: <20090509132643.653688770@smtp.haun-online.de> References: <20090509132643.653688770@smtp.haun-online.de> Message-ID: <1241884673.3991.53.camel@amd.pacdat.net> Hi Dirk I've been using Geeklog for a number of years now - would love to put some of the "real world" experience into the WIKI. Largest install is www.hancockwildlifechannel.org - just moved to glFusion but still have other sites on Geeklog and am moving another large one shortly (over 3000 pages) ID: richardpitt Thanks richard On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 15:26 +0200, Dirk Haun wrote: > The Geeklog Wiki, , does contain a lot of > useful information, but probably wasn't exactly the most attractive > place to go to for help, mostly due to the duplicate documentation trees > (for 1.3 and 1.4). We've finally managed to merge these two trees back > together and get rid of (most) of the duplicate content. > > This is now the point where we would welcome input and additions from > the Geeklog community. For example, there's a lot of content there > regarding development, but very little about the actual daily use of Geeklog. > > Also, the installation instructions are in a state of disarray after an > attempt to merge the instructions from the two documentation trees - > both of which were out of date to begin with. I guess it would be best > to start over fresh here and describe the installation process as of > Geeklog 1.6. I wonder if anyone from outside the core team would be > interested in trying to write up new installation instructions in "plain > English"? Jason C. Levine did a good job at that a few years ago, but > the installation process has changed a lot since then and it's time for > a fresh start, IMO. > > In the long run, I'd like the Geeklog Wiki to become the main source for > the Geeklog documentation. We will always ship some form of > documentation with Geeklog, but the wiki could become the master source > from which that documentation is fed and updated. And things like the > Plugin API and theme documentation should probably only live in the wiki. > > So, if you ever thought about contributing to Geeklog but you couldn't > because you're not a programmer, here's an opportunity to help us out. > You will need an account for the wiki, but we're giving those out freely > (self registration is only disabled because of those pesky spammers). > Small contributions, such as clarifying sentences, correcting typos, or > adding links between existing pages are also very welcome. > > bye, Dirk > > -- Richard C. Pitt Pacific Data Capture rcpitt at pacdat.net 604-644-9265 http://blog.pacdat.net www.pacdat.net PGP Fingerprint: FCEF 167D 151B 64C4 3333 57F0 4F18 AF98 9F59 DD73