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Arch shares its wiki strategy with Debian


The Arch Linux project is especially well-known in the Linux community for two things: its roll [...]

The Debian project recognized this and has sought to improve its own documentation game by inviting ArchWiki maintainers Jakub Klinkovský and Vladimir Lavallade to DebConf25 in Brest, France, to speak about how Arch manages its wiki. MediaWiki has a lot of strengths, Klinkovský said; it is battle-proven software, it is the de facto standard platform for wikis, and it has a nice API that can be used for integration with external applications such as bots. Lavallade said that contributor burnout is a real problem, and that people who have stayed a long while " usually start with a good, strong string of changes, but they end up tapering their amount of contributions".

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