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SubSonic could use a Wiki

Latest post 08-05-2008 2:39 AM by Boyan Kostadinov. 6 replies.
  • 07-11-2008 4:08 PM

    • Noffie
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    SubSonic could use a Wiki

    You've probably already thought of this, and have good reason not to or something, but it seems to me that SubSonic could really benefit from having a public wiki.

    Right now, it seems to me that the information on how to use the neat stuff in SubSonic is spread out across all of the developers blogs (Rob, Erik, etc), blogs of community members, the official forums, the code documentation, the subsonicproject.com website, etc, etc.

    And I know Rob and the team would like some help with getting docs, references, how-to's, and cookbook articles from the community.

    I confess I have had thoughts of helping the project with documentation in the past, but didn't really know where to get started and didn't take the time to figure it out.  It might be nice to say: "We need help with docs, click here to go to our wiki!"  (and with a good wiki, it becomes less of a 'documentation' and more of an 'knowledge base').

    If the dev team likes this idea, might be good idea to ask community what a good wiki to use might be.  I only have experience using MediaWiki, and installing/administering/using TWiki.  I like TWiki, but you guys (or community) might have better ones in mind.

    Thoughts?

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  • 07-13-2008 10:06 PM In reply to

    Re: SubSonic could use a Wiki

    If someone starts it, I promise to write something in it.

     

  • 07-14-2008 10:35 AM In reply to

    • Noffie
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    Re: SubSonic could use a Wiki

    Here are some open-source, .NET wikis:

    http://csharp-source.net/open-source/wiki-engines

    http://en.csharp-online.net/Open_Source_Wiki_Engines

    I figure that open source .NET makes sense, this being SubSonic, but it would ultimately be up to the team if they don't hate this idea.  :-). Anyone have any other ideas, or any experience with these wiki engines? 

    There's also hosted wikis, but not sure any of them would work out for a project this big.

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  • 07-14-2008 3:41 PM In reply to

    Re: SubSonic could use a Wiki

    I highly recommend Screwturn wiki.  Very fast and simple to use.  We are using this wiki internally and it's working great.

    BlogEngine.net is using it for most of their docs: http://razorant.com/blogenginewiki/

  • 08-04-2008 10:58 PM In reply to

    Re: SubSonic could use a Wiki

    I setup a wiki at http://tech-cats.net/subsonic. I am hoping that the DNS will take effect shortly so it will be avaiable at http://subsonic.tech-cats.net. Let's see if we can fill it with some content. I will start posting the few blog entries I have.

     


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  • 08-04-2008 11:59 PM In reply to

    • Noffie
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    Re: SubSonic could use a Wiki

    Hey, thanks a lot Boyan, it seems to run great and it will be great to have a wiki to start building as a community.

    (check out this topic for a good example of how hot this could be)

    I do have one concern though. I don't really care who is running the wiki, or where it is hosted at, but it would be nice to have the 'official endorsement' of Rob and the SubSonic core team on whatever wiki is used for SubSonic so that people feel a bit more comfortable spending time contributing and using it as a trusted source of info -- and it could be linked to from the main website.  And, not to rain on your awesome parade for setting this up for us Boyan, but I could see where Rob & Gang could have an issue with using/endorsing a wiki/domain which they don't have some or total control over.

    What sayest thou SubSonic community?

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  • 08-05-2008 2:39 AM In reply to

    Re: SubSonic could use a Wiki

    It will be great if the SubSonic team would endorse it and mabye eventually even host it. I just wanted to get the ball rolling. I have emailed a few blog authors already and some are interested in contributing.


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