wiki vs documentation

[Jonathan Aquilina]

Out of curiosity the wiki is it possible to pull from the official doc's to
the wiki and build the documentation on the wiki around the official doc's?


On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 12:27 AM, Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph
<lyz at ubuntu.com>wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Phill Whiteside <phillw at vpolink.com>
> wrote:
> > There are two areas of the wiki system, https://help.ubuntu.com/ and
> > https://help.ubuntu.com/community The former is looked after by the doc
> > team, the latter is maintained by the community.
>
> Just to be clear here, everything is "maintained by the community" -
> just slightly different communities :)
>
> You have System Documentation community (this is what we are calling
> "official documentation"):
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocumentationTeam/SystemDocumentation
>
> Anyone can submit a Merge Proposal (MP) to the documentation, but they
> do need to be familiar with the tools in order to do this. There is
> then a core team who reviews and merges these changes.
>
> And you have the wiki community:
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocumentationTeam/Wiki
>
> Anyone can edit the help.ubuntu.com/community wiki and there is no
> direct review of content that is added, so the Wiki Admins like Phill
> are in charge of handling administrative tasks on the wiki
> (move/redirect obsolete pages, etc) and are also often the ones who
> add tags. Some day it would be nice to see more growth here so there
> are enough people to tag and improve documentation on a better
> cadence.
>
> Anyone in the world can join both these teams if they go through the
> appropriate processes for joining (typically a time-based commitment
> and proof that you have the technical knowledge in that specific
> area).
>
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Jonathan Aquilina
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