[Bf-docboard] Mentioning wiki

[Peter Gervai]

Happy new year!

I haven't seen any reply on that below. Anyone does have any possible opinion on
that matter? 

Is it possible (legally) to get the actual documentation and insert it on a
wiki by my responsiblity, unrelated to you people? (Naturally referring back
here, to the "hard-to-modify-but-official" documentation?) Actual copyright
seem to reject that possibility, and it's not nice anyway to get it without
the knowledge of the authors.


Any reply would be much appreciated,
Peter


On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 02:11:17PM +0100, Peter Gervai wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I noticed in the archives (not easy due to the lack of search) that from
> time to time people are mentioning wiki and the documentation, but I see
> nothing got changed so far. I just write because I started to read the docs
> (well, actually just "checking" since I don't yet have time to spend my life
> with Blender) and in the fist 5 minutes I have noticed problems to fix. If
> it would have been a wiki I would have went on and fixed the typos and other
> small errors (which would not even have required any blender knowledge). You
> people would see my changes, see what and where I did change, and either
> smile that someone helps or revert my changes in 2 seconds.
> 
> Now, it isn't a wiki. So I should subscribe this list, and I am supposed to
> TELL YOU to change this and that. For 2 mistyped words and one other small
> cosmetics? No way.
> 
> Okay, you got my point I guess. But I do not want to demand to create a wiki
> and such. I just wanted to let you know...
> 
> ...you can check http://wikibooks.org/ , for example
> http://wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook which is a multi-chaptered one, like the
> Blender book. It can contain chapters, pictures, formatting or whatever
> people usually need. It's a wiki. It is well controlled: see "Page history",
> where you see changes, see "Recent changes" which shows you every change
> around, etc. 
> 
> It could be used, but I believe your license is not compatible with GFDL,
> and you don't want to put it under GFDL anyway. But the software is
> available (MediaWiki) and only needs PHP and MySQL. (Not that I'm a fan of
> any of those, but they're not crap either.)
> 
> So, this is two possibilities (along the possibility to use other, simpler
> wiki software like UseMod, TWiki, etc.). I would have set up a sample from
> the doc but I did not want to put it on the GFDL Wikibooks. But it's that
> simple.
> 
> Sorry for the high information/space ratio. :)
> 
> regards,
> Peter
> (who don't use Blender [yet], but still loves its interface and concepts, and
> likes to read good documentation)