Radical Suggestion: Add TiddlyWiki FAQ Page to Fedora Core

Paul Dickson paul at permanentmail.com
Fri Mar 3 23:50:54 UTC 2006


On Sat, 04 Mar 2006 00:08:27 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:

> Paul Dickson wrote:
> 
> >A major problem with wiki FAQs is that the user must be on-line to use
> >them, which can be a problem if getting on-line is the problem.
> >
> >Perhaps something like TiddlyWiki (http://www.tiddlywiki.com/) can be
> >used to get around this problem and help with other general usage of
> >Fedora Core too.  The only requirement would be to have firefox be part
> >of the default session setup.
> >
> >TiddlyWiki runs self contained within it's own web page using Javascript.
> >No other software is needed.  Only images are kept separately (in separate
> >files, as usual for web pages).
> >
> >If something like this was added to FC, post-install help and FAQ's could
> >be easily found.
> >

> In the short term there is a plan to start using a CMS system.  Refer to 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Websites/Meetings. We are working on 
> including the end user guides and FAQ's as packages within Fedora Core 
> and Extras. Not sure migrating to a new wiki system is worth the effort. 
> fedora-websites list might be a better place for this discussion 
> especially if you want to get involved.

Well, TiddlyWiki is mostly for local usage.  There is an addition that
adds Zope as the back-end called ZiddlyWiki (http://ziddlywiki.org/).

	-Paul




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