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Re: LibreCAD wiki

Posted by maqifrnswa on Oct 21, 2011; 3:22am
URL: https://forum.librecad.org/LibreCAD-wiki-tp4923135p4923546.html

On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 8:57 PM, dxli [via LibreCAD]
<[hidden email]> wrote:

> good job!
>
> I think we should link this wiki address from the Help menu.
>
> I do not enjoy the idea of linking to qcad page.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dongxu Li
>
> On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 6:46 PM, zxq9 [via LibreCAD] <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi everyone.
>>
>> I've been pulled away from focusing on LibreCAD for at least a month or
>> two because of a ridiculous work load in other areas. That also means I
>> can't thoroughly document LibreCAD features for the manual for a while,
>> either.
>>
>> So I've opened the LibreCAD Wiki for public edits, and also opened public
>> account creation.
>>
>> The Good News:
>> - The wiki gets a lot of traffic, particularly for a part of the internet
>> that hasn't been linked or announced anywhere (a lot being > 1k original
>> visits a week). Most hits directed to the wiki pages are from the search
>> strings "librecad manual" and "librecad wiki", in that order, coming from
>> Google, Yahoo, Ask and Bing. So this should be legitimate traffic, not spam
>> bots, which means public edits shouldn't be as dangerous as I originally
>> thought they would be.
>>
>> The Bad News:
>> - Until I can get back to organizing content into a coherent format the
>> wiki may become a big blob or unorganized knowledge. If this starts to
>> happen I will get down to organizing the content around December, so don't
>> worry too much if the wiki starts growing hair. Anyway, unorganized
>> knowledge is better than no knowledge at all, so I don't view this as so
>> much of a problem as just part of the necessarily messy wiki building
>> process.
>>
>> If you have some spare time and feel the urge to write a quick explanation
>> of a bite-sized subject (like "what is a spline?" or something similar) or a
>> quick HowTo, please drop by!
>>
>> The current canonical URL for the wiki is http://zxq9.com/librecad/wiki/ .
>> If we move it in the future or re-map the URLs this will always be a safe
>> redirection URL to use.

This looks like a great start! Thank you

Would there be a way for us to download/compile it into a series of
.html help pages so this can become a librecad manual? We don't have a
license to the qcad one, like dxli said. This can effectively become
the manual too