Honestly, the WM community seems to need a clear and continuously maintained document. I believe many people have encountered such difficulties when they first learned WM. Although I am now very familiar with WM, it still takes me a long time to adapt to the new version. I think establishing documents will help reduce the cost of communication and learning.
I think one of the best ways is to establish a wiki based on the existing forum. This wiki can be maintained by the community without taking up too much time of developers.
Due to principle that business driven only solo - i dont think that something like that possible to make part of official WM website and product itself (i dont know, needs developer answer)
maybe you (or someone) could host own webpage as WM wiki and allow us to participate in creation of content for it
as i understand a lot of community wiki for games made in such way that not related to main devs
A full-fledged wiki is a considerable amount of work. With that said, Discourse has a built-in wiki mode(Essentially, a category where every post is shared and editable by anyone) that is available and that could be a very helpful thing if it draws community contributions.
I think it would be worth a shot to at least try it. I do think we will need some guidelines as to “how to write an article”, and a certain common structuring of the paragraphs/elements. Would we need moderation as well (we could always try without at first, and see how it goes). Would the wiki mode support versioning of the documentation?
I’ve added a wiki category to the forums here. There’s going to be a need for evolving guidelines, moderation, and so on, but this is the simplest first start.
There is built-in support for revision control, which is essential. I haven’t used it much in the context of trying to maintain a wiki however - we will see how it goes.
