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[Raindrops From Sky]

Well I would not mind, but that wouldn't be efficient (the page is right).

Besides, I do need that master list of commands to start firing away.
If that is available, I can do most of the job by myself.

Any takers?

On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 4:15 AM, Mike Belanger
<mikejamesbelanger at gmail.com>wrote:

> There has been earlier calls for volunteers.  But many lose interest for a
> variety of reasons.
>
> You can sandbox pages in your own user directory for the time being, if
> there's a particular part
> you wish to start documenting now.
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Raindrops From Sky <
> raindrops.fromsky at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Wow. That page practically asks everyone to hold their horses till SOMEONE
>> decides about the strategy.
>> This is bewildering, indeed! Nowhere else is this policy declared.
>>
>> Here are some logical places where a volunteer starts:
>> 1. http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:Manual
>> 2. http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Main_Page
>> 3. http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Meta:Guides/Writer_Guide
>>
>> All of them ask the volunteers to go ahead and copy the 2.49 pages into
>> 2.5 and edit them!
>> Naturally they will go ahead! (I was thinking of doing the same).
>>
>> If that policy has changed recently, those pages should have been
>> modified.
>> A flashing message should be put so that new volunteers would wait till a
>> decision comes out.
>> ***
>> BTW that page is part of wiki, which can be edited by ANYONE.
>> (In fact, I just added my own potato there :) )
>> So is that the official policy of BF, or just a thought put forward by
>> some intellectuals?
>> How do we settle it?
>>
>> In general, how are decisions taken at BF? What is the process?
>> The Blender site does not explain that at all.
>>
>> Is there a project for freezing the wiki-related policy?
>> By what date will we know the outcome?
>>
>> And is the Blender Foundation recruiting paid/unpaid volunteers of various
>> types for these tasks?
>> For example, coder-writers (to document APIs), illustrators (for
>> drawings), modelers/animators/artists (to prepare example models). etc?
>>
>> I didn't see any call for volunteers at Blenderartists, BlenderNation,
>> etc..
>> Maybe we need a SURGE in this area!
>>
>> -Raindrops
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 5:22 PM, mindrones <mindrones at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On 09/14/2010 01:39 PM, Raindrops From Sky wrote:
>>>  > Is there a core group already thinking of starting on the wiki?
>>>
>>> yes there are plans about automating things later when the api will
>>> stabilize a bit.
>>>
>>> There has been discussion about this in March 2010.
>>> Have a read at
>>> http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Mindrones/Wiki/Proposals/2010
>>> (see the section "Wiki reference the 2.5 way, semi-automatic").
>>>
>>> Apart from having a big list in text format, there is more work to do,
>>> like doing appropriate templating in wiki to integrate things in a
>>> proper reference, to be used by wiki writers. The goal is to let people
>>> use templates to input shortcuts and screenshots instead of typing
>>> things manually (or copypasting from a txt) so that updating a single
>>> template changes the whole wiki according to the correct blender version.
>>>
>>> My personal plan is to discuss this at the conference before doing any
>>> heavy changes in wiki.
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Luca
>>>
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