[Typo3-documentation] Don't know how this will go over...

[Jean-Marie Schweizer]

Hi Coby

Thank you for your post. I'm trying to sum up what I understood from 
your post.

Your are expressing pretty much the problem that we try to solve in the 
docTeam. The Wiki is very new and not up to it's fullest potential yet 
since it lacks from enough content.

With the Wiki we do have everything we need to satisfy the need of 
newbies and others. That is, we have the tools... We have ML/NG, 
documentation section at typo3.org with OOs and PDFs and the Wiki. The 
questions we should be asking is how we could use those tools more 
efficiently or how do we write so everyone is satisfied and gets 
something out of it.

We had a lot of discussions about how to write, how to structure etc. 
already in this NG. A lot of your suggestions have been addressed and we 
are coming up with a solution at some point, that I'm pretty confident.

The problems that we try to solve (in a nutshell):

1. Structure
2. Readability
3. Maintenance
4. Accessbility

We can solve those problems with the Wiki, a solution for download and 
offline printing (not necessarly OOo/PDF at typo3.org) and the ML/NG. 
Adding a chatroom might help but I think we help more by focussing on 
the documentations for right now.

The beauty about the Wiki is, you don't have to suggest and hope that 
anyone will take your suggestions and change something, you can do it 
right away. So, if you have a clear picture in mind, how you want to 
have a certain documentation, just write it. Check with Peter where to 
put it (since he takes care about the structure) and post here if you 
have any other questions.

Jean-Marie


PS: I know there is more to write but I'm blank right now. So forgive me.