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 |
Fedora Project wiki (MoinMoin) attributes
Strengths
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.
Weaknesses
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.