Jay Vaughan wrote:

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>> This stood out for me "The tangled pile of mostly outdated and

>> incomplete documentation at the OpenMoko wiki..."

>> Is this an accurate evaluation of the wiki ?

>> If so, what can we do to fix it up, how do we identify old content

>> and schedule it for updating?

>>

>

>

> I think, personally, its time for a 3rd-party site not related to

> OpenMoko to pick up the slack here. So much stuff happens too quickly

> for people who /should/ be updating the wiki to feel like its

> productive to do so ..

>

> What I would like to see is something like an "mokofanboix.org"

> website come up that has the following:

>

> - Daily blog news akin to the good ol' slashdot, of news from the

> openmoko scene, gleaned from careful inspection of the mailing lists,

> of IRC, of the codebase, of code delta's, etc.

>

> - Public free Repository of all the latest and greatest 'cool apps'

> found for OpenMoko

>

> - Public forum for discussion of the news.

>

> This is, of course, sorta what we've got with things like

> planet.openmoko.org (which I check daily), combined with the

> Scaredycat repo's and other such things, but ..  for newcomers .. I

> don't think any of this is as easily approachable as it would be if it

> were all put under a single umbrella that is a bit more of an

> 'openmoko pop culture' site than what we've got right now ..

>

> ;

> --

> Jay Vaughan

>

>

>   

I agree.

Regardless though, an out of date wiki is not helpful.
What approaches can we take to fix up the wiki
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