Tangent: Documentation developers & support providers in a gift economy

Posted Dec 9, 2005 15:14 UTC (Fri) by Baylink (guest, #755)
In reply to: Tangent: Documentation developers & support providers in a gift economy by Petre
Parent article: FOSS.IN: A report

This seems like an excellent place to stick my head up and prospect for a little help on a nascent project to write a bot to extract DocBook format documentation masters from MediaWiki.

Anyone with any deep background on either side got some free minutes?

This doesn't seem like all *that* hard a project; keeping track of cross references for the second pass is probably the hardest part...

But it seems like it would be a really good approach to leveraging the distributed knowledge capture capabilities of a really good wiki package (and, clearly, I think MW is the best :-) in a fashion that fits in with everyone's favorite target intermediate format these days.

I'm just not a good enough coder to actually pull it off.

...

And if you think "documentor" is a hard seat to fill in the FOSS community... try analyst/designer (which is what I've gotten paid for for the last (cringe) 2 decades).