[Cialug] wikipedia

[Dave J. Hala Jr.]

Right now I have two 100+ page word documents.   I'd like to get them
online and get rid of the paper...



On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 18:04, Rob Miller wrote:
> I'd love to work on a documentation project, just for the experience. 
> I have a few years of doing user doc for Windows desktop software,
> online Help using RoboHELP, HTML Help, etc.  I'm not sure I can
> volunteer my time but I could give you a reasonable estimate for the
> work, as a free-lance project.  Thanks.
> 
> Rob Miller
> rob at dotcomservices.com
> 
> On 8/15/06, John.Lengeling at radisys.com <John.Lengeling at radisys.com>
> wrote:
>         What kind of user documentation?  Manuals?  PDFs?  or are you
>         just talking about online/self-service stuff?
>         
>         MediaWiki really isn't a good fit for Manuals/PDFs like what
>         you would get with shrink wrapped software.    It is good for
>         the online/self-service stuff.  I support various software
>         engineering tools so I wrote a bunch of documentation, screen
>         shots, faqs, etc.  I now just point people to the Wiki page.  
>         
>         johnl
>         
>         
>         
>         "Dave J. Hala Jr."
>         <dave at 58ghz.net>
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>         I'm really interested in user documentation. Generally
>         speaking, my user
>         do a bunch of doc's and then we try and merge them, and its
>         generally a
>         painful task.
>         
>         I'll take a look at Media Wiki.
>         
>         On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 16:53, Josh More wrote:
>         > We use a combination of MediaWiki to document business
>         process,
>         > software design, end-user documentation and run project
>         plans.
>         > 
>         > However, we generate our developer documentation via Natural
>         Docs.
>         > 
>         > I can probably answer some questions too.
>         > 
>         > 
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