Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:
> 
> On 31 juil. 07, at 21:04, Douglas Hutchison wrote:
> 
>> Concur with Frank. The power of a wiki is the ability to allow large
>> collaborative, synchronous participation on the dataset, similar to
>> the use of CVS (concurrent versions systems) for software. Perhaps we
>> might "copy" the software model here making the wiki and then creating
>> "freeze" points
> 
> Contrary to the software model there are no "build" facilities that will
> take the wiki to ODF.

I would like to work on those. I agree that we need to have them
to be able to go out of the wiki "box".

> Besides for that, my experience is that only a few people will ever
> participate to a wiki, in which case, the overhead of exporting to ODF
> is not balanced by the ease of contributing.

Well that remains to be proven. Lets see what the outcome of putting
the Admin Guide and API Guide on the wiki will be.

Would the authors that currently contribute to the ODF directly
feel comfortable in contributing to a wiki, provided we had
the required framework (guidelines, editorial, production, etc)?

Frank

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