BIRD wiki proposal

[Stéphane Bunel]

Le 19/12/2010 08:44, Nick a écrit :
> On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 09:06:16AM -0300, Andrew Latham wrote:
>> Sorry, I am a bit of a lurker on this list but I must chime in.  In
>> the last 15 years I have watched many projects grow and let me say
>> that community documentation is a good step.  It is hard and can
>> appear to fail while it is working well.  I am setting up a wiki-farm
>> for some internal projects and would suggest you look around for a
>> large wiki-farm at a university that will exist long term.  All major
>> Wiki's and software does have an export path to PDF style documents.
>
> If you want your documentation to exist long term, you shouldn't lock it
> up in some random wiki storing its pages in some random database format.
> ikiwiki stores your pages as regular files and uses git as the version
> control system instead of inventing some random VCS.  ikiwiki also makes
> it easy for people to contribute to your wiki without ever opening some
> random browser.
>
> Some Random Nick
>

I agree about storing wiki data in flat files instead of databases. In 
this category, IMHO, DokuWiki[1] is a serious player. And sure, 
community documentation is a good step for Bird.

Stéphane.

[1]http://www.dokuwiki.org/dokuwiki