See also:
Forum discussion on same topic (deeper reasoning too?): http://drupal.org/node/105706
Proposal: How to get more people involved with documentation: http://drupal.org/node/67367

As a way to get more people involved in documenting drupal, a wiki would be perfect. it would make it simple for anyone to add documentation for specific issues, modules, questions, methods, etc. etc. A wiki would not necessarily be a good way of creating a final documentation, but it could serve as a resource for the final, official documentation in drupal book format, or another format.

wikis, being quick and easy to update and interlink, would allow those who do not have enough time to become official documentation moderators to have input, and also make it easier to find some answers which are unlikely to be documented otherwise (rare issues, etc.) (see forum)

http://wiki.drupal.org would be a good place. mediawiki would probably be a good system to run it on currently (see forum topic for more one this)

naught101

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sepeck’s picture

sepeck commented
Status: Active » Closed (works as designed)

we will eat our own dogfood and use the capabilities of our own software. With revisions currently enabled on the handbooks, users with sufficient rights already have much of this functionality.

pyutaros’s picture

pyutaros commented

I would like to suggest the Liquid Wiki Engine Module. (For drupal using drupal nodes.)
http://drupal.org/project/liquid

cwgordon7’s picture

cwgordon7 commented
Project: Documentation » Drupal.org infrastructure
Component: User Guide » Other
Status: Closed (works as designed) » Active

Drupal can effectively run a wiki. See http://groups.drupal.org/node/7837 for my proposal. We could use this "wiki.drupal.org" for two purposes: more effectively organizing the information currently found in the Drupal handbooks and api.drupal.org, as well as demonstrating Drupal's potential as a full-fledged wiki. I'm reopening this issue as part of the Drupal.org infrastructure project, because I think that's a much more appropriate place to put this.

-cwgordon7

sepeck’s picture

sepeck commented
Status: Active » Closed (works as designed)

Please investigate the current structure and organizations before suggesting additional workload. I suggest you install the API module used to generate api.drupal.org to explore it's strengths and limitations. Documentation is already very wiki like. Please consider requesting documentation maintainer rights to see this.

moshe weitzman’s picture

moshe weitzman commented

so, are you proposing to add a new site and make no changes to the structure of handbook and api. that strikes me as a bad idea. please make a more complete proposal.