Documentation project for PureBasic?

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Should we create a documentation project based on a Wiki?

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Post by Blade »

:idea:
Future editors perhaps should read this page:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_content
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Post by Fred »

For this project, you can of course take the original doc and copy/paste it to have a base (and complete it). It looks interesting !
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Post by GedB »

Lets move this forward.

I've created a free Basecamp project for handling this.

All those who want to be involved send me a PM with your email address and I'll invite you to the project.

At this point, lets just see who is interested. Once we have the project set up we can start to make decisions about the way forward.
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Fred wrote:For this project, you can of course take the original doc and copy/paste it to have a base (and complete it). It looks interesting !
Thanks Fred!

Your donation of the documents is very welcome indeed!
It will give a starting point!
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Post by Blade »

GedB wrote:I've created a free Basecamp project for handling this.
From a quick googling I can see Basecamp is not freeware. How does it works?
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Post by GedB »

Blade,

Its online project management, nice a simple but very useful.

They offer a limited free service, good for one project with no files.

For this, thats all we need.
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Post by Progi1984 »

I'm french!
There are three official forums : english, deutsch and FRENCH !

Why not three wikis for the three communities ?
Personnally, we are a lot behind us for helping in your project !
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Post by GedB »

Progi1984,

MediaWiki supports multilingual. Hopefully we can have 1 wiki in 3+ languages
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But i see two wikis : one for english and one fo deutsch !
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Post by GedB »

More can be added.
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And it's why i asked a french wiki ! ;)
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Post by GedB »

Its no good just asking for it. You need to get on board and help with the translating.

Send me your email address and I'll invite you to the project :D
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Post by Klonk »

Did I miss something, has the project already started? If yes, where?

Additionally I a sid before I finished the layout and freed some space.
Take a look at
http://www.purebasic.loncarek.de or http://purebasic.loncarek.de

I haven't written anything yet. What you see there are the default Files of PmWiki.

So if writing hasen't started yet, where should we do it:
On my page or at purearea.net
Bye Karl
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Post by GedB »

Klonk,

I've set up a BaseCamp for the project, where we are going to work from.

We intend to go with PureArea.net.

PM me your email address and I'll invite you to the project.
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Post by Pupil »

Fred wrote:For this project, you can of course take the original doc and copy/paste it to have a base (and complete it). It looks interesting !
Maybe one could even modify the DocMaker program to output wiki source directly, that way the whole document for all libraries could be made in a few seconds and then uploaded to the wiki?
If someone was allowed to modify, or if someone in PB team modified the docmaker source accordingly you can generate the wiki for the libraries from the cvs tree, thus having all languages that already have a helpfile converted to wiki format in just a few minutes.
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