improving the Python docs -- a wiki? copy PHP's model?

A. Lloyd Flanagan alloydflanagan at comcast.net
Thu May 6 11:35:42 EDT 2004


Michael Chermside <mcherm at mcherm.com> wrote in message news:<mailman.265.1083757484.25742.python-list at python.org>...
> Stephen Ferg writes:
[snip]
> Actually, please don't set up yet another wiki. Instead, go to
>    http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/moinmoin/
> and start creating pages. (You'll need to create a user account.)
> If you're feeling REALLY ambitious, you could go to
>    http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/moinmoin/ModulesThatNeedDocs
> and volunteer to help fill in some of the existing gaps in the
> official documentation.
[snip some good stuff]
> other formats. A wiki can't take the place of that, but then
> static docs can't incorporate community involvement as easily
> as a wiki... there's room for both.
> 
> -- Michael Chermside

Apparently this has been discussed before -- there's a couple of
comments on the wiki page requesting that the official documentation
be added, from last year.  Somebody should Just Do It.



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