[Pmwiki-users] suggestions for the new documentation structure

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 08:40:08AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Oct 2004, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> 
> > The outline you presented above is excellent for administrators, because
> > it places things in the order an administrator might encounter them when
> > setting up the software.  But it's not so good for authors--people who
> > are writing wiki pages but not running the software--because they have
> > to get past (or overlook) the installation and configuration details
> > before they get to the sections on creating, editing, and other markups.
> 
> i thought about that, but these days, what with more and more people
> running their own boxes, a lot of these authors *are* the
> administrators.  didn't used to be that way, but it's certainly
> becoming more common.

It may be more common, but I'm more concerned about the case where 
an administrator wants to have lots of authors on his/her site (who
certainly won't be administrators).  Even though administrators are
becoming more common, it will always be the case that there are orders
of magnitude more authors than administrators.

I don't want PmWiki to only provide documentation to the administrator--
I think that PmWiki should also provide the administrator with 
documentation for his/her authors.

Pm