Posts Tagged ‘wiki’

Must Read: Confluence, Tech Comm, Chocolate

{ Posted on Apr 26 2012 by annegentle }
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"Who cares about printing money, let's print chocolate!" --Chapter 23, Driving Wiki Development, Confluence, Tech Comm, Chocolate Do you need proof that Sarah Maddox, author of Confluence, Tech Comm, Chocolate: A wiki as platform extraordinaire for technical communication, is a complete chocolate ...Read More »

Wiki Best Practices from Wikia Content Team

{ Posted on Oct 16 2011 by annegentle }
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I found this great set of best practices for wikis on the Wikia site. They host 275,000 wiki sites on all sorts of topics, and truly want to help people reach the most potential with their wiki by offering guidance. ...Read More »

Why Wiki?

{ Posted on Sep 28 2011 by annegentle }
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In OpenStack-land, the wiki was chosen before I got here. It has a couple of flaws for my vision for open source documentation, which became more apparent when I recently outlined my reasoning for what content goes where. By walking ...Read More »

Booki in the running for a Drumbeat Award

{ Posted on Oct 14 2010 by annegentle }
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Adam Hyde, founder of FLOSS Manuals, the community documentation group that makes open docs for open source, just announced some exciting news on the FLOSS Manuals Discuss list. ...we got booki into the Drumbeat Open Web Award...ok. Thats great news! Well, now ...Read More »

Working at Rackspace with OpenStack

{ Posted on Sep 10 2010 by annegentle }
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I'm finishing up my first partial week as a "Racker" - that's what employees at Rackspace are called. I'm a special sort of a racker, a stacker, because I've joined the OpenStack team as the OpenStack Technical Writer. My wiki ...Read More »

Even More Technical Documentation Wikis

{ Posted on Aug 05 2010 by annegentle }
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Last spring I wrote up a blog entry pointing out some additional technical documentation wikis to add to a list I had in my "Wiki-fy Your Doc Set" presentation. A recent Twitter request asking for technical documentation wiki examples brings ...Read More »

Documenting Open Source Software

{ Posted on May 20 2010 by annegentle }
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I love reading different community perceptions of both FLOSS Manuals, where we write open docs for open software. I'm also lurking on mailing lists and forums where open source projects are figuring out documentation needs for their users. Forgive me ...Read More »

Business Etiquette, Community Etiquette

{ Posted on May 18 2010 by annegentle }
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After seeing this great instructional guide to eating sushi, I realized the only way I knew any of the rules or guidelines for sushi dining was through example. I learned that one of my examples was wrong - you're not ...Read More »

Wikis for technical documentation – Cliff’s Notes

{ Posted on Apr 25 2010 by annegentle }
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If there ever could be a Cliff's Notes for the wiki chapter of my book, I think I'm writing it now. I've been working on a great project with MindTouch. I visited them for a focus group with other technical ...Read More »

Wikis, copyright, and licensing

{ Posted on Apr 13 2010 by annegentle }
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A question about wikis and copyright came through my email inbox this week, and I thought I'd share it with my readers. It's a good question and a common misconception of wikis is that all content is always liberated once ...Read More »
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