Thanks for the ideas Ed.. There are wiki APis that are abl eto wikify docs in many formats so wikifying the docs should be possible.
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Ed Burnette <[email protected]> wrote: > > Here's an idea - allow the Android documentation to be wikified, by > which I mean people could add comments on each page expressing their > experiences using the API. > > Second idea - enable and use the wiki feature at Google Code in the > android project here: http://code.google.com/p/android/ > > I like the idea of Google "blessing" a wiki even if they don't have > much to do with writing the content (though I expect some team members > won't be able to help themselves). Having them host it would be nice > to have for stability and availability purposes, but it's not a > requirement. > > Case study: The Eclipse Foundation set up a wiki for all their > projects and it has been a great success. See > http://wiki.eclipse.org/Main_Page > . They decided to require log ins for some accountability, and the > wiki userids are the same as the bugzilla userids. Before the official > wiki was set up, there were a couple of unofficial ones but content > was of varying quality, and I seem to remember it being unavailable > for stretches of time. > > -- Ed Burnette > Author, "Hello, Android", http://www.pragprog.com/titles/eband > Webmaster, Planet Android blog aggregator, http://www.planetandroid.com > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
