[ckan-dev] CKAN Wiki

[Rufus Pollock]

On 2 February 2011 08:13, Seb Bacon <seb.bacon at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1 February 2011 21:14, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
>> On 1 February 2011 20:32, David Read <david.read at okfn.org> wrote:
>>> Friedrich,
[...]
>>> * http://wiki.okfn.org/ckan - for users of the service and system
>>
>> **Deprecated**
>
> In favour of what?  Can we add a message to the top of the template on
> this site saying so?
>
> I am yet to get to grips with all the sources of information I find --
> for example, I am still confused about the trac instance on
> KnowledgeForge (which appears to be for ticketing sysadmin tasks?)

Right, <knowledgeforge.net/okfn/tasks> has *nothing* to do with CKAN
other than the fact it is our central sysadmin trac ...

> If we can reduce the number of sources I would be very happy.  If we
> can have a single index page which is the place all other things are
> linked to, I would also be very happy.

This should be http://ckan.org/ (at least for dev side). The issue, if
it is not apparent :), is that CKAN project has two distinct but
related components:

1. The CKAN software (http://ckan.org/)
2. The CKAN 'network' based around http://ckan.net/ but with a whole
set of other community instances

This new wiki is aimed at second group. This is also why this isn't
really a discussion for the dev list :)

> I will gladly take this task on myself, however clearly there is a lot
> of history I need to understand in order to do so...:)

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>> <http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/ckan-discuss/2010-December/000777.html>
>
> So Olav et al were talking about a "Help" section on ckan.net; note
> that "User Guide" on the home page of ckan.net is currently pointing
> at the deprecated http://wiki.okfn.org/ckan.  So what's the correct
> location for such documentation, now?

It will be http://wiki.ckan.net/

At some point we may integrate this more 'into' a CKAN instance (as
Olav wanted) but that's obviously non-trivial so the simplest right
now is a separate system. The feedback we got was that pointing people
to http://wiki.okfn.org/ckan/ was confusing and having a separate
dedicated location was better. And that's what happened.

Rufus