On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 07:48:58AM +1000, Jeff Fearn wrote: > Karsten Wade wrote: >> >> On the wiki has the advantage of drawing from 10x to 25x the >> collaborators as XML does. > > Where do you get these statistics from? > > I'm curious as to how they are generated and what kinds of interesting information can be extracted from them ... yes, I _may_ be a little bit geeky :D > > Cheers, Jeff. I haven't actually compared statistics in a while. Background here is that when we were talking originally about adding wiki content as part of the formal Fedora Docs, I talked with Deb Richardson (Dria), who was running Mozilla's developer documentation. They had gone through a migration from DocBook XML in CVS to a wiki for their dev content. They were experiencing very impressive multipliers of contribution to the exact same content in the wiki by the same pool of developers who had the skills to commit to XML, plus a whole new class of contributors who would never have ventured in to XML. In the last several years, Fedora has grown to several thousand registered contributors, with hundreds of those regularly editing parts of the wiki. In the same time as that growth, DocBook adoption in Fedora has been flat. We rarely have more than a dozen people at a time willing and able to commit changes to the XML. So, if you want to seek updated statistics, draw from: * How many people edit the wiki in a given month? (Can use RSS feed of recent changes.) * How many people edit any of the DocBook projects? (Can use fedora-docs-commits for this.) There is a lot of noise in there, though. For example, f-docs-commits is full of Transifex commits, while the wiki is full of content that is not really documentation. That said, it is clear that wiki documentation content has grown continuously in the same time period that XML docs contributions have been nearly flat. - Karsten -- Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Community Gardener http://quaid.fedorapeople.org AD0E0C41
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