[documentation] wiki style help pages

[ricco at webulite.com]

Hello,

I tried to begin a group called http://groups.drupal.org/wikihelp after
someone in the wiki group suggested I start a group.

The group moderators posted me asking for more information about the goals

you can see that response at http://groups.drupal.org/node/10369

I am getting the impression the group I would like to start is not going
to be approved. One of the Drupal Gods posted me and suggested I join the
documentation email list, so here I am.

It seems to me that wiki documentation would be much more useful if it
incorporated wiki functionality. Allowing people (perhaps members only) to
edit pages as wikipedia.org allows, AND allows the freelinking feature to
allow one to include [[page name]] type references. Which are both
currently possible with the groups.drupal.org pages, but not drupal.org
pages which are where the documentation pages seem to be. In addition,
there is no "Edit" tab in Drupal doc pages allowing users to edit them. I
believe Doc editing should be incredibly simple and obvious for even the
most beginning user, if you hope to get your users involved in
participating in documentation. And the wiki environment seems to be such
an obvious documentation environment implementation. Look at the
popularity of wikipedia.org.

I have talked with folks in the IRC chat, the wiki group, and recently
tried to as you see start groups.drupal.org/WikiHelp

Am I barking up the wrong tree? Am I fighting against the philsophy of the
Drupal developer community? If so, I will just fade into the woodwork, and
become a Drupal user, instead of attempting to get involved in helping to
write documentation for the beginner level.

If, on the other hand, there is a wiki project happening, or one about to
happen that I am unaware of... I would appreciate people turning me on to
it. I would be happy to spend time helping to doucment wiki functionality
of Drupal, and even get involved in documenting other non-wiki
functionality of drupal if Drupal is working on any kind of wiki
documentation project. I have worked on documentation and tech writing and
tech support in the past, so I have some experience. I would be willing
and happy to be involved in helping with the very beginning documentation
for beginning users, so that more people that look at Drupal start with
it, instead of turning to a mediawiki install because it seems simple to
get up. In the long run, and even the short run, Drupals permissioning
system make Drupal a superior choice for a wiki implementation, so if we
can make setting up a wiki easier for even the most beginning site
manager, we will capture more initial installs.

I got the time and the interest, if someone can direct me.

Cheers! Ricco