2011-11-10, 00:42
pseudo7 Wrote:Agreed, though no offence to wiki's (and therefore xbmc's wiki) I think a lot of users dislike wiki's.
Henry fords dharma guide is very popular, I can assume as it is quite simple and a pdf.
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=99826
Ned, i see you've commented on it - perhaps have a simple guide for each release, dharma can be based on Henry Ford's guide. I think he is already working on Eden
Actually Henry let us use his guide on the Wiki. I haven't finished "wiki-fying" it (kind of got distracted), but you can get a basic idea of what it looks like in wiki form here: http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Dharma_Guide
The idea being that we're exploring different formats, and looking for replacement options for new users. My idea is to have two online manuals, one for basic/new users, and one for advanced users and developers. This way one topic doesn't over-load the new guy who just needs a single setting for his advancedsettings.xml file, or something like that.
Over all the entire XBMC Wiki is going to be overhauled. Right now I've just been doing some basic technical stuff, but eventually we want to have guides that will help people edit the wiki and better construct these pages. Right now there's no real guidance on editing the pages (as in, how to make good how-to's, topical pages, etc, and how to bring it all together). Editing used to be turned off and you had to ask for access, but now anyone can edit again by registering an account on the wiki (in the long run we want to link forum and wiki accounts so you don't have to make a new one).
For Eden I want to get the various FAQs in shape (for example, see the iOS one) and make a new quick start guide, hopefully before the end of the year.
I know this thread started out just asking for feedback on the FAQs, but feel free to brainstorm/suggest/whatever for the over-all wiki. If anyone wants to help out or just throw out an idea, it would be greatly appreciated.
