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"+" to all you've said (as the youngsters say it nowadays), Stefan. Thanks for putting that together. A drop of rationality in all this backpressure nonsense is very refreshing for the volunteer in me. Le 06/08/2021 à 13:16, Stefan Seyfried a écrit :
On 06.08.21 11:33, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 06/08/2021 07.32, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
On 05.08.21 23:38, Carlos E. R. wrote:
I have written complex wiki pages in full, but I'm not capable of contributing in this new way.
It's not rocket science. Markdown is another way of describing content layout, but it is not harder than the myriad of wiki syntaxes. With github / gitlab, there are WYSIWIG markdown editors, so it is about the same skillset that's needed for a Wiki.
The only real difference is, that you usually do not edit the live content but you edit your own private copy (you "fork" the project in your "home project") and then request that your changes are included back in the "official" document (you do a "pull request").
You can do all this from your web browser if you want to. But you can also use powerful tools like "vim", "ed", "NOTEPAD.EXE" to handle the texts.
That's exactly what I feared :-(
What exactly is there to "fear"?
That it is *not* rocket science? So everyone who wants can contribute easily and there is no elite club of Wiki-capable editors anymore? Well, I cannot help with that, but I think it is a good thing!
That you can use a WYSIWIG editor? Don't fear, you can also edit plain text format.
That the changes can be integrated in a coordinated way, and later one can find out who wrote what and maybe ask him what he meant? Don't fear, it's certainly not as adventurous as everyone just editing the result in a chaotic way, but has proven useful in many projects over tme.
That you can use a web browser *or* local editing tools? And work offline? Don't fear, there is no obligation to use a specific set of tools, you can use whatever suits you best. It's actually much more choice than with a Wiki setup.
And IIRC, you are on a volume limited internet connection, so the feature "download (compressed, of course) once, then, in the future, only pull compressed diffs" of the git commandline client might be of some benefit to you!