The Fedora Project Wiki

Current Uses of the Fedora Project Wiki

Topic	Description
Release Notes	Preparation of draft version of published Release Notes
Application Features	Developers
Collaborative editing	Draft versions of Fedora docs
Fedora Tour (Slideshow)	Marketing
Fedora Weekly News	Marketing
Meeting agendas	Project Management
Meeting minutes	Project Management
Fedora event reports	Ambassadors
Ambassador membership verification list	Ambassadors
Personal wiki page	Contributors

1. Low barrier to entry for learning and producing web pages.

1. Simple wiki markup language vs.slightly more complex HTML.

1. Version tracking with reversion capabilities.

1. Ability to embed native HTML code.

1. Logging of recent changes.

1. Programmatic extensions through Python.

1. Customization of page appearance via CSS.

1. User authentication by group membership.

1. Access control.

1. Page tracking with email notification.

1. Quick creation of formatted web pages.

1. Page categorization by tags.

1. Long response time while editing.

1. Notification by email of updates very resource-intensive.

1. Limited scalability.

1. Difficult to generate DocBook XML from Wiki markup language.

1. Difficult to produce well-formatted PDF files.

1. Requires regular and manually-intensive maintenance to keep docs current and accurate.