[Qgis-developer] Wiki homepage edit

[Tom Kralidis]

Hi all: here's a dump of the relevant pages [1]; as you can see developer
oriented content / brainstorming / ideas.  I don't think this is valuable
user documentation.

Any reason not to expand our use of QGIS' GitHub Wiki?

Cheer

..Tom


[1] https://gist.github.com/tomkralidis/7637988681e6f8fc683c3ff9f3d9c887

On Sun, 5 Mar 2017, Tim Sutton wrote:

> Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2017 10:31:20 +0200
> From: Tim Sutton <tim at kartoza.com>
> To: DelazJ <delazj at gmail.com>
> Cc: Tom Kralidis <tomkralidis at gmail.com>,
>     qgis-dev <qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org>
> Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer] Wiki homepage edit
> 
> Hi
>
> On Sun, Mar 5, 2017 at 5:05 AM, DelazJ <delazj at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm not sure https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Website/blob/master/themes/qgis
>> -theme/docs_index.html (actually docs.qgis.org) is a good place to show
>> Metasearch plugin information; AFAICT, this page lists all the docs
>> released by QGIS Teams and aimed to be of *wide interest*.
>> Furthermore, the User manual provides a chapter on Metasearch:
>> http://docs.qgis.org/testing/en/docs/user_manual/plugins/
>> plugins_metasearch.html so if particular information are worth
>> mentionning/linking, i think this page suits better.
>> Also, given that the wiki at hub.qgis.org is being closed, maybe instead
>> of linking to that page, improving the chapter in user manual with valuable
>> contents from the wiki should be the way to go...
>>
>
> ​Yeah that sounds like a good approach - thanks Harrisou!
>
> Regards
>
> Tim​
>
>
>
>>
>> my 50 cts,
>> Harrissou
>>
>>
>> 2017-03-04 21:07 GMT+01:00 Tim Sutton <tim at kartoza.com>:
>>
>>> Hi Tom
>>>
>>> Which wiki are you referring to? I assume by the fact that you are using
>>> an osgeo-id that you mean the one at  http://hub.qgis.org/. This wiki is
>>> being end-of-lifed and IMHO you should not add any new content there.
>>>
>>> The wiki at https://github.com/qgis/qgis/wiki is being used but only for
>>> specific uses.
>>>
>>> One option would be a small patch to the docs page on QGIS.org itself -
>>> but check first with Yves or Richard if that would work well for them....
>>>
>>> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Website/blob/master/themes/qgis
>>> -theme/docs_index.html
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> Tim
>>>
>>> On Sat, Mar 4, 2017 at 7:27 PM, Tom Kralidis <tomkralidis at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi devs:
>>>>
>>>> How can I get a link added to the wiki? I'd like to add a link to the
>>>> MetaSearch
>>>> wiki docs [1] on the homepage [2].
>>>>
>>>> I am logged in with my OSGeo ID but doesn't look like I have edit privs
>>>> on
>>>> that page.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>>
>>>> ..Tom
>>>>
>>>> [1] http://hub.qgis.org/projects/quantum-gis/wiki/MetaSearch
>>>> [2] http://hub.qgis.org/projects/quantum-gis/wiki
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