[Xastir] Ask not what your Wiki can do for you. Ask rather what you can do for your Wiki.

[Steve Friis]

Tom Russo wrote:
> The Xastir wiki can be a great source of documentation, kept up-to-date and 
> growing by the concerted efforts of the Xastir community.  Left to itself, 
> however, it'll just become a cobweb site of stale information of no use to 
> anyone.
>
> Right now, there is a very short list of people working on the wiki pages.  The 
> main documentation page is a half-populated skeleton of information, there are 
> some half-formatted pages that look like cut-and-pastes from existing pages but 
> with no functioning images or links, and (on the upside) there are some very 
> good pages on system specific installation.  There are two ways to fix this:
> wait until someone else populates the thing, or start adding to it yourself.
>
> Right now, the wiki is not a substitute for the flat files that come with a
> distribution tarball or cvs checkout, but if enough distributed effort were 
> applied it could be a much, much more readable and searchable way to get
> information to the user community.
>
> As one of the original skeptics of the utility of a Wiki over flat ASCII files,
> I have been trying to prove myself wrong by working on getting several of the 
> wiki pages to be complete and informative, to update them with additional 
> hints and tips as I stumble on them, and to tweak the organization to make it
> easier to find information.  Please pitch in and help make this thing as 
> useful to as many new and casual users as we can.
>
>   

Yea, but you should have put a link here somewhere so us fat-dumb-ugly 
ones can find it.

Z