[ckan-dev] CKAN Wiki

[Rufus Pollock]

On 1 February 2011 20:32, David Read <david.read at okfn.org> wrote:
> Friedrich,

This, really, really should be on ckan-discuss :), following on from
the previous thread:

<http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/ckan-discuss/2010-December/000768.html>

But now it is here atm I'll continue ...

> Sounds like lots of new and good info is being written for the new
> wiki, which is great. I just want to be clear about where this fits in
> with our two existing CKAN wikis, because I'm concerned adding a new
> one makes it harder for newbies to find stuff.
>
> * http://wiki.okfn.org/ckan - for users of the service and system

**Deprecated**

> * http://ckan.org/wiki - for developers

continuing.

> Now is the former just going to for users of services apart from
> ckan.net and the system in general, whilst users of ckan.net use your
> new wiki at http://wiki.ckan.net/? If so, will you be moving a bunch
> of the pages across to ensure we make this clear? Also, isn't it a bit
> difficult to make it clear which wiki to be using?

No, don't think so

> There is also a wiki page on bitbucket which is enabled - Rufus do you
> mind if I disable that and the issue tracking?
> https://bitbucket.org/okfn/ckan/wiki

Go for it.

> Does anyone see anything wrong with collapsing all these wikis into
> one central one at say ckan.org? This could have sub-sections for
> ckan.net users etc.

Yes I do. Mnay of the community users will not be the least bit
interested in the code or the trac and conversely developers need not
(though may be) interested in the community wiki. See e.g.:

<http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/ckan-discuss/2010-December/000777.html>

Rufus