I believe it is better to separate the documentation from the main website. It's not really easy to explain, but try to look at it from my perspective, from a general user. It wouldn't cross my mind to ask you guys for full permission to edit your main website. I'm not involved with the development of the project and even not you offer it, I'm think "that's weird, I'm not going to edit the main website, I'm just a general user". If there is a wiki, or something similar, which is full devoted to be a repository of knowledge on OSG (which is pretty big), then I would consider editing or adding some information about a particular part of the OSG system that I dealt with and learned something about. For example something that took me a while to find out, but that I thought should be general knowledge. But not something that needs a separate article or guide. It's easy to argue that you can do anything with Joomla that you can do with wiki, but that's not a very strong argument I think: if you wouldn't use any content management system and gave users ftp permission to your website, then technically, you can STILL do anything that a wiki can do, which is making content. Community efforts are not only about the technical possibilities of the system that is used. It's about the user-friendliness and 'affordences' or whatever they call it, and I believe wiki is a system most people find perfectly suited for editing and adding small bits of information on particular subject. Important is then that there is a good structure that covers OSG well, so users also easily know WHERE to place information that they think needs sharing, without having to write a whole article or guide about it. Also users know that wiki's are meant to be edited by the community, while they probably don't know that they can get access to your main website to plac e information there. And even if they know, there is no structure that really covers OSG and all it's functions, so all you can do is add loosely coupled articles now. That's a well as I can explain it, and that's all I will say about it. I would do this as a hopefully useful contribution to OSG, but not without full support. If you truly believe that the way it is now is as good as can be, then there's nothing more to say... I'm not going to use Joomla to make a full documentation structure for OSG, sorry, I just don't think Joomla is the right technology for that, even if 'technically' everything is possible...
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