The OSMC Wiki is Useless

[EMJB]

@CaNsA

OSMC is a project.
It is constantly being worked on.
The operating system, Kodi, the Kodi wiki and the OSMC wiki are constantly being worked on, improved, updated and upgraded.

The OSMC team consists of a dozen people at most, they are all working on all the things all the time.
If you want it all straight away then can I suggest you spend your time writing up Wiki entries for both the OSMC and Kodi wikis and submit them here, instead of complaining on the forum.

If you would like to contribute in other ways please click this link…
https://osmc.tv/contribute/

I know you said “in other ways”, but I followed the link, and I see you want donations, coders, socialisers, translators, and mirrors, but no mention of documenters! To be blunt, I am finding it difficult to believe that you consider the documentation as important as I do, and that OSMC is being developed without thought as to what the impact may be on documentation. Nevertheless I have started to assemble some suggestions for improvements to existing entries and for additional entries, and hope to let you have these within a week.

[ActionA]

Why will you only suggest changes/edits if you feel so strongly about it’s importance? You can make changes to the wiki and issue pull requests yourself https://github.com/samnazarko/osmc/tree/master/wiki

[EMJB]

@ActionA - I strongly believe that the documentation needs to be viewed as a coherent whole, and needs to be closely co-ordinated with the software development. If I were to start suggesting changes to individual pages of the wiki:

1. Each would be seen, and tend to be judged, in isolation whereas some changes need to be seen as a group
2. I don’t want to waste my time fine tuning words and looking up internet links etc if the broad concepts behind my suggestions are not accepted.
3. In some cases I will probably be putting forward alternatives
4. Software changes currently in the pipeline may invalidate at least the details of my suggestions

and perhaps most importantly I am not familiar with github and how to express the rationale behind any changes I propose.

[ActionA]

Thanks for your list of excuses on why you can’t contribute to the documentation that you feel so strongly about…

[EMJB]

@ActionA - I did not say I was not going to contribute - what I said was that in the first instance I was not going to do it via GitHub amendments. I do not rule out doing it that way once I feel I am on the same wavelength as the OSMC team, and the basic concepts are resolved in a way that makes individual changes more meaningful in isolation.

If that’s how the OSMC team view my offer to generate suggestions & comments in a different form, I won’t bother.

[sam_nazarko]

Thread locked. Either do something about it or stop complaining. Since you posted, 4 people have made direct contributions to the wiki. Obviously they saw a need to improve it and did something about it, rather than making a series of posts about how it needed improving, but that they were too busy to do so.

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