[squeak-dev] Squeak Swiki (was: Proposing class Category README or HOWTO for easy access to documentation within the system)

Chris Cunnington brasspen at gmail.com
Fri Jun 13 00:02:14 UTC 2014


On Jun 12, 2014, at 7:42 PM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 04:19:46PM -0700, tim Rowledge wrote:
>> 
>> On 12-06-2014, at 4:04 PM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 02:25:37PM -0700, tim Rowledge wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> The problem is that writing good help & tutorial content is hard work. Take a look on the swiki to see how several groups and individuals have tried to build tutorials and lost steam after a while. I?ve been trying to clean up and update some of it but it takes a lot of thought and a startling amount of time.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> I don't know if anyone has mentioned it recently, but the updates to the
>>> swiki are very good. I can now go to http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak and get
>>> an overview of Squeak, with links that quickly get me to useful content.
>>> Big improvement.
>> 
>> It?s a slow process - a lot of the changes to the front page I did over a year ago and some at the end of last year! I?ve tried to clean up the documentation & ?squeak books? pages, and made a start on pulling together some old and new tutorial stuff to try to make a coherent whole. It?s a huge project. More input needed.
>> 
> 
> I hope you are willing to accept a small amount of praise, glory, and gratitude
> in lieu of actual work.
> 
> I do think that it would be helpful to make this more directly visible from
> the squeak.org home page.

I'll change that tomorrow. 

Chris 

> The home page provides a nice welcome, but there
> is not much content behind it. It might be good if new users could quickly
> find their way to wiki.squeak.org.squeak.
> 
> Dave

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