Arch shares its wiki strategy with Debian
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Re: Arch shares its wiki strategy with Debian
#2Look at the "ArchWiki active users per month" graph. What happened in 2013? With the exception of the lockdown period, it has been decreasing since then.
Re: Arch shares its wiki strategy with Debian
#3Documentation is super important for complex things. I feel like it’s highly underrated by many otherwise great open source projects, to the severe detriment of the project. Nice to see an explicit focus on it.
Re: Arch shares its wiki strategy with Debian
#4Look at the "ArchWiki active users per month" graph. What happened in 2013? With the exception of the lockdown period, it has been decreasing since then.
A spike in pages needing updates for the systemd migration which started in 2012 returned to a more normal level.
In recent years, NixOS has probably taken some of their enthusiast base too
Re: Arch shares its wiki strategy with Debian
#5Look at the "ArchWiki active users per month" graph. What happened in 2013? With the exception of the lockdown period, it has been decreasing since then.
The baseline has been covered and there's not as much to write about anymore?
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#6Look at the "ArchWiki active users per month" graph. What happened in 2013? With the exception of the lockdown period, it has been decreasing since then.
2013 is around the time Manjaro got popular.
Arch also locked down their forum posts due to popularity in 2011.
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#7Instead of creating multiple wikis with probably 80% of duplicate information between them, it would be great to have a cross distribution wiki with separate sections for distribution-specific instructions where it makes sense. Gentoo had a fantastic wiki before they lost it to disk array failure (IIRC) around ten years ago, now pretty much everyone is going to the Arch wiki, why not try to turn it into a shared project?
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#8Hopefully they share it with NixOS next
Re: Arch shares its wiki strategy with Debian
#9Look at the "ArchWiki active users per month" graph. What happened in 2013? With the exception of the lockdown period, it has been decreasing since then.
Many people used Arch for its status as "the pro Linux distribution" i.e. not beginner friendly, but secretly still easy enough that you don't need much effort. That's how "I use Arch btw" became a meme.
These people have now moved to NixOS.
Re: Arch shares its wiki strategy with Debian
#10For lwn.net articles, aren't these subscriber-only links meant to be used only by the subscriber? Is sharing them on HN sabotaging lwn?