Man pages in the wiki?

inXistant · 2008-04-14 20:39:27

Hi all,

I think it would be handy to add man pages in the wiki so that an article could refer to it if need be. So the questions are:

1) Has this been discussed before?
2) What do you think of the idea?

Cheers,

X

Snowman · 2008-04-14 20:46:47

1) I don't think so
2) I don't think it's a good idea. The wiki is intended mostly for Arch Linux related material. General linux stuff shouldn't go in the wiki as there are better place out there to put this info (e.g. wikipedia or general linux wiki). BTW, you can get the man pages from the web. For example, http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=man … arch&meta=

inXistant · 2008-04-14 20:48:46

For this price, you can also get it in bash. The idea is to have a direct reference...

chimeric · 2008-04-14 20:52:17

There's a even "nicer" resource for man pages than google, namely http://www.man.cx. Just append the program you want to read the man page for after the '/'. For example:

http://man.cx/ls

Maybe one of the wiki admins could add an interwikilink (eg. [[man>ls]]) if that's possible in mediawiki (not sure atm).

finferflu · 2008-04-14 22:08:13

chimeric wrote:

There's a even "nicer" resource for man pages than google, namely http://www.man.cx. Just append the program you want to read the man page for after the '/'. For example:
http://man.cx/ls
Maybe one of the wiki admins could add an interwikilink (eg. [[man>ls]]) if that's possible in mediawiki (not sure atm).

Wow! That's cool, I have also noticed that you can actually add your own comments to the man pages, that's very useful.

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Man pages in the wiki?

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