On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Renato Coutinho <renato.couti...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 10:08 PM, Aaron S. Meurer <asmeu...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I noticed that renatocoutinho started porting some of the pages (like >> https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/Quick-examples/_history). Thanks for >> that! > > Yes, I started to play with it, I have some handy regexps if anyone is > interested. > > But now I'm somewhat confused, there are several sources of > documentation, and I don't know what each one should contain: > > https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki > http://wiki.sympy.org/wiki/Main_Page > http://code.google.com/p/sfepy/w/list > http://docs.sympy.org/ > http://sympy.googlecode.com/svn/api/sympy.html > > My opinion is that we should have documentation centralized, and by > far the most beautiful and well organized is in docs.sympy.org (the > github math mode is ugly and doesn't show formulae correctly for me > sometimes). > > Having a wiki, though, is also nice, we can replace the googlecode and > mediawiki with the github one. There's much redundancy between the > wiki and the main documentation (docs.sympy.org), so it looks unclear > to a newcomer which is THE documentation, especially because the wikis > are easy to find and don't even refer to the main doc page. Maybe the > wiki should have specialized uses, like gsoc, plans and ideas, > cookbook etc. and leave most of the usual docs to the docs.sympy.org > page.
I totally agree with everything you wrote and thanks so much for the initiative! Yes, we should port all docs from the wiki into docs.sympy.org. > > I also think that a better structure in the wiki would be nice > (hierarchical instead of a list of all pages). I can do that, if > people don't like it, it's easy to revert back. Yes, please go ahead. > > I don't know what is the status of the api documentation in > googlecode, there are references to it in the mediawiki wiki, several > of them broken. I vote for removing that api. I'll wait if there are any objections, and if not, I'll go ahead and remove it. Ondrej -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To post to this group, send email to sy...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy?hl=en.
