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Re: A Proposal: Each of Online Debian Man pages could have a wiki (Main page / Talk Page, etc.) at its bottom, with only Example Code Lines ...

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On Vi, 18 iun 21, 17:40:34, Michael Grant wrote:
> 
> It's a little odd for Debian to host a documentation wiki for upstream
> tools.  The package maintainers would need to look after the wiki page
> that corresponds to the package they are maintaining.  Not everyone is
> going to be happy with more work.  Even if they are not the ones
> writing it, they will need to be aware of it and if things change,
> tweak it.

Agreed.
 
> It feels like you should try to start a sort of "unixepedia" thing
> like wikipedia and then one by one try to get people to create pages
> for their tools.  Then, eventually people will put links into their
> man pages pointing at this global resource.  That's my best opinion
> after reading all your posts.

Agreed, except for the "get people to create pages for their tools". The 
upstream maintainers have enough work actually developing the software. 
I'm fairly certain the Arch wiki (praised here again and again) is 
written by the users.

The Arch wiki is GFDL 1.3 (or later), so the initial content could just 
be copied from there (with appropriate attribution and whatever else the 
license requires, of course), with small tweaks to remove the 
Arch-specific parts.

Kind regards,
Andrei
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Re: A Proposal: Each of Online Debian Man pages could have a wiki  (Main page / Talk Page, etc.) at its bottom, with only Example Code Lines ... "Susmita/Rajib" <bkpsusmitaa@gmail.com> - 2021-06-18 18:10 +0200
  Re: A Proposal: Each of Online Debian Man pages could have a wiki  (Main page / Talk Page, etc.) at its bottom, with only Example Code Lines  ... Michael Grant <mgrant@grant.org> - 2021-06-18 23:50 +0200
    Re: A Proposal: Each of Online Debian Man pages could have a wiki  (Main page / Talk Page, etc.) at its bottom, with only Example Code Lines ... "Susmita/Rajib" <bkpsusmitaa@gmail.com> - 2021-06-19 04:50 +0200
      Re: A Proposal: Each of Online Debian Man pages could have a wiki  (Main page / Talk Page, etc.) at its bottom, with only Example Code Lines ... Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2021-06-19 09:00 +0200
        Re: A Proposal: Each of Online Debian Man pages could have a wiki  (Main page / Talk Page, etc.) at its bottom, with only Example Code Lines  ... The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2021-06-19 11:30 +0200
          Re: A Proposal: Each of Online Debian Man pages could have a wiki  (Main page / Talk Page, etc.) at its bottom, with only Example Code Lines  ... Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-06-20 08:50 +0200
      Re: A Proposal: Each of Online Debian Man pages could have a wiki  (Main page / Talk Page, etc.) at its bottom, with only Example Code Lines ... "Susmita/Rajib" <bkpsusmitaa@gmail.com> - 2021-06-19 10:50 +0200
        Re: A Proposal: Each of Online Debian Man pages could have a wiki  (Main page / Talk Page, etc.) at its bottom, with only Example Code Lines ... "Susmita/Rajib" <bkpsusmitaa@gmail.com> - 2021-06-20 07:40 +0200
          Re: A Proposal: Each of Online Debian Man pages could have a wiki  (Main page / Talk Page, etc.) at its bottom, with only Example Code Lines ... "Susmita/Rajib" <bkpsusmitaa@gmail.com> - 2021-06-21 08:50 +0200
            Re: A Proposal: Each of Online Debian Man pages could have a wiki  (Main page / Talk Page, etc.) at its bottom, with only Example Code Lines  ... Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-06-21 13:50 +0200
      Re: A Proposal: Each of Online Debian Man pages could have a wiki  (Main page / Talk Page, etc.) at its bottom, with only Example Code Lines  ... Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-06-19 15:50 +0200
        Re: A Proposal: Each of Online Debian Man pages could have a wiki   (Main page / Talk Page, etc.) at its bottom, with only Example Code Lines   ... Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2021-06-19 17:50 +0200
        Re: A Proposal: Each of Online Debian Man pages could have a wiki  (Main page / Talk Page, etc.) at its bottom, with only Example Code Lines  ... Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-06-19 20:40 +0200
    Re: A Proposal: Each of Online Debian Man pages could have a wiki  (Main page / Talk Page, etc.) at its bottom, with only Example Code Lines  ... Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-06-20 09:00 +0200

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