Pythondocs.info : collaborative Python documentation project

Steve Holden steve at holdenweb.com
Sat Sep 16 13:39:08 EDT 2006


nicolasfr at gmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am a bit disapointed with the current Python online documentation. I
> have read many messages of people complaining about the documentation,
> it's lack of examples and the use of complicated sentences that you
> need to read 10 times before understanding what it means.
> 
> That's why I have started a collaborative project to make a user
> contributed Python documentation. The wiki is online here:
> http://www.pythondocs.info
> 
> This is a fresh new website, so there's not much on it, but I hope to
> make it grow quickly. Help and contributions are welcome; Please
> register and start posting your own documentation on it.
> 
While I am all in favor of improving Python's documentation I am not 
sure that fragmenting it in this way is a good idea. Couldn't you 
instead devote your efforts to improving the docs at docs.python.org? It 
is, after all, an open source project ...

regards
  Steve
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