The FreeDOS Documentation Project (FD-DOC) aims to producehigh-quality documentation for all aspects of FreeDOS:HOWTO documents are a helpful set of documents that tell you all youneed to know about how to use FreeDOS.Our license is the GNU FDL.
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A few days ago, I restored a backup of our documentation Wiki and removed heavy spamming (link farms) from dozens of pages. Twelve hours later, everything was totally spammed again. So, following JeremyD's example from http://wiki.fdos.org/ (the tech wiki), the user documentation wiki on http://fd-doc.sourceforge.net/wiki/ now uses a blocklist to stop spammers. I hope you will enjoy using the resurrected wikis for DOS-friendly things again now :-). The doc wiki also features the MetaFaq, which has pointers to our best FAQ entries...! By the way - the FAQ engine now has spam filtering, too...
We had a few problems with the site, including wiki and faq. Soon, everything will be back to it's normal state.
The FD-DOC project has a new coordinator, me, Carlos Bonamigo and also a new homepage for the project that will be ready soon. Everybody is invited to collaborate and we will be using the pmwiki wikiwiki engine to ease the maintenance of the FD-DOC documentation.
Thought everyone might like to see Stefan Mayrhofer's terrific effort to create a Germn documentation Wiki for FreeDOS. Stephan writes: "hi, I'm working on a German wiki book called 'FreeDOS Kompendium' at http://de.wikibooks.org/wiki/FreeDOS-Kompendium based on the wiki concept so everyone is invited to contribute (in German) to it. of course all content is under the terms of gfdl. Maybe someone wants to translate this to other languages."
Hi! I've (finally!) finished moving all of the FreeDOS How-tos into the DocMan system (https://sourceforge.net/docman/index.php?group_id=18412). My next step now is to insert the Spec/Manifesto into DocMan.
Just a note to let you know how I'm doing on the Mini How-tos, and migrating them into DocMan. I've finished moving all of the FreeDOS Mini How-tos (except the emacs/freemacs Mini How-tos - see http://www.freedos.org/jhall/freemacs/) into the DocMan system (https://sourceforge.net/docman/index.php?group_id=18412). My next step now is to insert the full How-tos and Spec/Manifesto into DocMan. This may be easier, since I can just upload the html directly.
As an experiment, I've taken Johnson Lam's "FreeDOS Migration Guide" and put it into DocMan: http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=20916&group_id=18412 It's easy enough to define "FreeDOS How-tos" and "FreeDOS Mini How-tos" in the SF documentation manager, and you can submit and edit documentation fairly easily. But I'd really prefer to have an audit trail of some kind within DocMan, to show who edited a document at what date/time (currently only shows last modified date/time.)
I'm considering how to improve the FD-DOC project, to make it easier for new users to contribute to our documentation. I'm concerned that by using 'roff -ms' as our documentation standard, we have set the bar too high for new documenters. It doesn't make a lot of sense to require that a user learn what is essentially a document-programming language (roff) just to contribute to a FreeDOS How-to. So I'm thinking about moving our FreeDOS documentation into the SF DocMan. What do you think? Join the discussion on fd-doc-list.
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