[Bf-docboard] Mentioning wiki

[Peter Gervai]

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)