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...What if there was a wiki that people could use to participate in the documentation, and then that documentation would become the man page with the next relea
by jrsims 18y ago
...What if there was a wiki that people could use to participate in the documentation, and then that documentation would become the man page with the next release? Everyone wins?
I like and use both man pages and wikis, but I'm not sure how I would even begin to participate in helping with documentation for something like a man page if I wanted to. The actual creation of the man page itself, as I understand it, is a single-user task. If you want community involvement to get source material, you're going to have to have an accessible participatory mechanism; a wiki, essentially, in whatever form that may take. But it should be easy, no?
I suppose there's also the counter argument that "people who need wikis to participate in something like git documentation are probably not the people we want writing git documentation."