Re: Please remove "-i" from "%forgemeta" templates on wiki

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On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 02:48:31AM +0100, Kevin Kofler via devel wrote:
> Otto Urpelainen wrote:
> > Unfortunately, the Fedora wiki is a documentation trap, full of outdated
> > or obsolete pages whose advice should not be followed. Mixed with other
> > pages that have useful content that cannot be found elsewhere, so you
> > cannot simply disregard the wiki either.
> 
> The move to docs.fedoraproject.org was really a mistake. Documentation is 
> harder to keep up to date there, also harder for readers to find there, the 
> duplication between old wiki pages and new docs.fedoraproject.org pages is a 
> common issue, and some information is not on docs.fedoraproject.org at all 
> (but in some old wiki page that is harder to find now that most 
> documentation was moved off the wiki).
> 
> I really fail to see what value that move has brought us.

I don't think "documentation is harder to keep up to date there" is right,
or necessarily harder to find (although I hoped we would have a decent
search solution by now!). But the value is in having a curated space,
because the wiki serves too many different purposes to ever be that -- it's
_always_ doomed to be a documentation trap. 


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