From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from oat.nine.sirjofri.de ([5.45.105.127]) by ewsd; Tue Jul 28 07:28:11 EDT 2020 Received: from sirjofri.de ([178.5.83.171]) by oat; Tue Jul 28 13:27:34 CES 2020 Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2020 11:27:57 +0000 (UTC) From: sirjofri+ml-9front@sirjofri.de To: hiro <9front@9front.org> Message-ID: <69ca4492-7a1f-48fb-ba59-4f226277042c@sirjofri.de> In-Reply-To: References: <97186701FFF3C64903FE2A1834258976@eigenstate.org> <24b4c44a-2ced-4b14-bd0f-e1dba93a597f@sirjofri.de> Subject: Re: [9front] The 9 Documentation Project MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Correlation-ID: <69ca4492-7a1f-48fb-ba59-4f226277042c@sirjofri.de> List-ID: <9front.9front.org> List-Help: X-Glyph: ➈ X-Bullshit: patented self-healing wrapper realtime browser cache Hello, the project is not only about creating a wiki space, this is just one part that's especially useful for the information that's distributed over many blogs or hidden behind long chat logs. I often find myself interviewing kvik, burnzez or mycroftiv (and others) about how to do things that are never written anywhere else. Most of the time I try to understand this and then write an article about exactly that (on my personal blog or on 9gridchan wiki). Imo this information is good in a wiki, because other users can easily add missing information and link to other sources. The other parts of the project (if you want to call it like that) are: improving man pages, fqa and maybe even debug messages. These are all more static because there's a review and merge process. On the other hand, collected information in a wiki can help authors to select content for the fqa. Also don't forget /sys/doc and maybe /sys/lib/wiki. /sys/doc is a possible place to be extended with updated information. The dead /sys/lib/wiki can be revived with snapshots from the wiki. I can also think about a separate update process that automatically fetches data from the wiki and includes it into the system wiki (offline snapshot). You see, there are many possibilities and I'd like to provide a place where plan9 users can provide useful information (guides, notes etc) that do not fit in the book styled fqa or the highly implementation specific manpages or the highly technical /sys/doc, also these articles can change quickly (sometimes daily or weekly) which would be a lot for reviewers to approve before including it into the main distribution. Also I don't expect things to be so complex. Having a plan9 usable small and simple system (eg an official wikifs) makes more sense than hiding everything in a browser that can't even edit the pages because there's too much webshit or something like that. Also we are a small community, so providing information should be more in focus than providing nice UI and a modern web browsing experience. sirjofri