[Python-ideas] Encouraging more use of the Python wiki

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 06.01.2015 23:11, Wes Turner wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 4:01 PM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 06.01.2015 20:44, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 11:39 AM, Skip Montanaro <
>> skip.montanaro at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 1:31 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org>
>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> it is how to deal with the entire wiki gradually getting out of date
>> due
>>>>> to page "owners" losing interest or topics becoming irrelevant.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Even if you can recruit lots of gardeners, you need a few master
>> gardeners
>>>> to lay things out (define the structure of the garden). Otherwise you
>> wind
>>>> up with just a bag of pages. Pushing the gardening metaphor to its
>> limit:
>>>> no planning means the lettuce is always shaded by the corn.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Nice one, and agreed. I don't see anyone with a serious wish to be a
>> master
>>> gardener for wiki.python.org in this sense though. :-( Perhaps we should
>>> advertise the position? It's a volunteer role, but will require a lot of
>>> motivation. Ideally the master gardener team should be allowed to select
>>> the tool suite and be given permission to switch to a new suite pretty
>>> aggressively. The team should also be responsible for deciding on the
>>> policy for edit access. This seems more workable than having an
>> open-ended
>>> discussion on python-ideas.
>>
>> Such discussions should really happen on pydotorg-www where
>> that team already works. We do have several people who maintain pages
>> or page sets on the wiki, but more editorial help is always welcome.
>>
> 
> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pydotorg-www

Yep, that's the list.

> https://www.python.org/dev/pydotorg/website/

That page explains the old python.org website system. It
doesn't have anything to do with wiki.python.org.

>> We need people who have experience in technical writing and
>> a passion to maintain informational resources.
>>
>> FWIW: A change of tools won't magically give us better content.
>>
> 
> A boost in familiar usability could encourage effortless contributions.

The wiki does support ReST syntax if you don't like the wiki
markup:

http://moinmo.in/HelpOnParsers/ReStructuredText

and it also supports WYSIWYG editing using FCKeditor (even though
the generated markup code doesn't look all that nice).

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