[mythtv-users] Help with documentation

Jay Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Sun Jun 21 21:05:01 UTC 2015


[ Carboning Hika direct, since I seem not to be able to post anymore ]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Hika van den Hoven" <hikavdh at gmail.com>

> Sunday, June 21, 2015, 12:55:59 PM, you wrote:

> Thinking further, I think the first step would be to decide on a fresh
> structure and then creating a new wiki in parallel, moving over stuff
> step by step.

Have you not been around the community long enough to know that we
did that already, moving from Moin to Mediawiki, about 5 or 6 years
ago?  :-)

> A first thought is to create an extensive tree of keywords, whereby
> assigning every page the appropriate keywords. So much more extensive
> then the present search tree. Also several lines of entry, like to
> start with: initial configuration, maintenance, upgrading, api-usage
> etc.

"tree of keywords".  MW has a UI for that data structure?

If you just mean a tree of links on a page, by all means, that might
be useful.

But anything that starts with "let's throw out tens of thousands of man-hours
of work people have already put in" is probably not the best approach.

Cheers,
-- jra
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