Re: Request: A Debian public Wiki repository/bank for complex code lines with examples, scripts, self-explanatory with terminal, otherwise Minimal explanatory texts

[rhkramer@gmail.com]

On Friday, April 02, 2021 01:11:01 AM Susmita/Rajib wrote:
> Thank you, Dr./Mr. Kramer, for taking time to post your kind inputs.
> To me, the best possible option would be an organisationally hosted
> wiki site with strict posting guidelines, and pages as described.

Just a followup:

I wasn't aware (until very recently when I saw it mentioned by somebody else 
in this thread, iirc) that there is a Debian wiki.

I've done a verly little investigation into that, but could share more of that 
information if you'd like.  Some tidbits:

   * the wiki is at https://wiki.debian.org/

   * there is a sandbox at https://wiki.debian.org/WikiSandBox -- it is not 
quite what I am used to as a sandbox as it recommends against creating new 
pages (other than ones that would include new content)

   * you can see a list of (some of?) the exising pages at 
https://wiki.debian.org/Wiki

   * I get the idea that, at least to a certain extent, some of the people 
contributing to it want to organize things (at a high level) based on Debian 
distribution, e.g., Jessie, Stretch, Buster

I would like to see the content well organized an focused as well -- I can 
envisage the need to label the content of pages with notes (metadata?) that 
indicate which Debian distribution the note(s) apply to, maybe which 
distribution it became effective with, as well as which distribution it became 
obsolete with (all of which on an "if known" basis.  I can also see the need 
for some similar metadata that is "orthogonal" to that -- for example, things 
like which desktop they apply to (KDE, GNOME, ...) or whether it applies to X 
windows or Wayland, but then that information also needs to designate which 
Debian distributions it applies to.