Pythondocs.info : collaborative Python documentation project

Leif K-Brooks eurleif at ecritters.biz
Sat Sep 16 15:36:16 EDT 2006


nicolasfr at gmail.com wrote:
> 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

I agree that Python's docs could use improvement, and I love the idea of 
using a Wiki for the purpose. But maybe MediaWiki would be a better 
choice of software? Dokuwiki's syntax looks foreign and a little bit 
intimidating to me, but Wikipedia has made pretty much everyone familiar 
with MediaWiki's syntax. Less syntax to learn lowers the cost of entry, 
which should lead to more contributors.



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