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Google DocCamp: documentation unconference

denials — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 16:12:02 +0000

After an extra week of polishing, the Evergreen team has announced the availability of their book at http://evergreen-ils.org/book.

I think it's a great start, and hopefully we get that momentum thing going!

Google DocCamp: documentation unconference

midol — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 16:53:54 +0000

I couldn't find a link to the book text. is there one?

Google DocCamp: documentation unconference

Nemo_bis — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 08:01:04 +0000

In "projects have found success with open source tools for translating application strings and in-program help messages", compare MediaWiki's Translate, used to translate MediaWiki in almost 300 languages on translatewiki.net: "none of those features are available in the systems that projects use to maintain their documentation", but MediaWiki (and Wikimedia on Meta-Wiki, as well as KDE) uses Translate also for its documentation, because it has none of the problems you mention besides many features other systems lack, and further improvement to the interface is in the works.