Status quo of Mercurial wiki

[Dirkjan Ochtman]

On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 16:01, Adrian Buehlmann <adrian at cadifra.com> wrote:
> Why do those people not edit the wiki to improve it instead of
> just complaining about how bad the wiki is?

Editing the wiki is a lot of work, for example, I tried at one point
to merge some of the places that talk about setting up hgwebdir, but
it's not all that easy to decide what content to keep, what to
discard, what to merge, what the best outline would be, how to lay out
everything, etc, etc. On top of that wiki markup isn't always all that
straightforward.

(Nowadays I don't spend a lot of time reading the wiki, mostly I just
point people at it.)

> Is it really that hard to edit the wiki?

To make it coherent and good, yes, that's hard work. Minor corrections
aren't that hard, but there's still a certain barrier to entry.

And then there's the fact that sometime you'll have to research what
the problem or the solution is (e.g. what API is in 1.1).

Cheers,

Dirkjan