<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 10:57 PM, Jaakko Helleranta.com <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jaakko@helleranta.com">jaakko@helleranta.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I don't have a good enough internet access at hand here but a few thoughts:<br>
* excellent!<br>
* if/since u go the open source way for the book (which LearnOSM.org is too, eih?):<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It is open source right now.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
- would it make any sense to still keep it in a/the wiki and go "the WikiTravel" way creating an OSM version. Of the WikiTravelPress where a designated set of wikipages is set to create a book(let) that can b ordered from Amazon with the latest (in WikiTravel I think it's approximately monthly??) updates.<br>
... MediaWiki's wiki-to-PDF feature/plugin(?) would b a good addition to the selection palette (not sure if the osm currently has that..).<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I just learned about MediaWiki's collection extension today, but I still think it's way too easy to get crappy, unhelpful content on a wiki. A book or "monolithic document" behaves more like a releasable software project: accepting patches and bugs and is easier to write to a specific audience rather than a bunch of "if this, then do that"'s.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The wiki is a great way to collect lots of ideas for documentation, but if we don't have anyone grooming the wiki then it quickly grows unhelpful.</div></div>