Docbookwiki

Hi.

I have written down my idea about a docbook wiki here:
http://kde.blogsite.org/?q=node/56 including comments, especially the one
about the Docbookwiki project.

The text is here for discussion, too:

I have had an idea way back about improved documentation for KDE which I'd
like to share since Harald has pointed out the miserable state of
documentation in KDE. I know that ideas are only worth one cent or so compared
to the implementation, but still I think it would be really helpful:
My idea is to use an english Wiki for documenation. This might not be new, but
what I mean is to actually integrate the internal help with an online Wiki.
That way users can and would write the documenation themselves. This would
have two advantages: a) the documentation would be most likely better than
what it is now (this is not hard to achieve...) and b) it is a much easier way
to start to contribute to KDE than specific translation or bug hunting stuff.
Just link from the doc page to the online Wiki for updodate docs and there
propose to fix it if it is outdated, wrong or missing.
 Then pull the Wiki content before string freeze from the database, add
screenshot media as uploaded by users and convert it to the docbook. Next step
is that the maintainer reads this article *one* time and checks for mistakes
or shortcomings as well as docbook fixes. And then move it to the translation
team.

 Guessing the interest of most developers and their personal fun factor it is
very unlikely that the documenation will be done sanely, completely and
reliably ever, users would be much more reliable because they are plenty and
they use app documentation (at least a view of them) and they know what
information they missed.
The advantage over a drop of the whole doc stuff inside KDE is that you have
clear maintained versions shipping with each KDE version and there *are* still
offline users around... + you don't get a versions mixup: Many distros will
ship specific KDE versions for years and it might quite differ for lets say 3
years = 6 KDE versions. Of course you could do online versioning only as well,
but serious reviewed offline documentation is really more professional. I
guess that it is a must have for the default de of the major distros, e.g.
mandriva.

Cheers,
duns

P.S.: Originally I've although thought to link to a Wiki page from each
KMessageBox automatically, so users can share experience with certain errors
or infoboxes they don't know how to deal with and will make it more
transparent where the error could be caught better. Of course this is related
to bug reports as well.

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