On 17 November 2011 11:58, Kristopher John Gamrat <chaotickjg@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thursday 17 November 2011 11:50:12 am Calvin Morrison wrote:
> Do you want a new inexperienced user writing your help manual?

I was contributing to documentation over at Ark Linux within a month after I
started. It wasn't much, and most of it was adding details to existing
documentation, but I did contribute. That's what most inexperienced users
will do if they do contribute: add in details. That's quite useful to have:
since most of us have been doing awhile, it's hard for us to write from a
newbie perspective, so we might leave out important details or not be clear.
A new user who's reading that might get just enough detail to figure it out
on their own and want to help improve the article.


I'll respond to both here.

If users are sending in data and we are going to reformat it, it doesn't matter if we use markdown or not.

Again if this is going to be very collaborative as Piki suggests, we might as well employ the wiki we already have in place.

Calvin Morrison