This aims to be a unified Ubuntu documentation site.

The "problem" is that there are many different sources of documentation for Ubuntu. And many of them are excellent. I believe there is no hope to unify them upstream. People are going to contribute in the way they want to and there is nothing wrong with that.

We should not fight it, we should celebrate it.

This site is a reference to documentation from all the different sources, along with their articles.

Entries contain the link to the original article as well as a short description.

The articles are ranked by popularity. Kind of like a Digg for Ubuntu documentation. So, if one week, the best article describing how to enable desktop effects happens to be a forum post, it would "bubble up" in the popularity scale and be more prominent. Perhaps another week, the same topic would have a more popular source from another site altogether. Wherever the actual article is, any user can visit this site and find references to what they need.

What about the official Ubuntu documentation? Does this fragment user's efforts by encouraging them to participate in 3rd-party documentation instead of helping the Official Ubuntu docteam?

Forcing centralization isn't more efficient than organizing decentralization.

If you coerce all documentation writers to work on the same Wiki, you may spend more energy fighting about how to best represent or organize the information than you'll spend on actually writing the good documentation. This website aims to make it easy for the end-user to have access to the best documentation, regardless of the source.

That being said, the Docteam is excellent and the official Community-contributed documentation on the help.ubuntu.com is the easiest and most effective way for someone to contribute documentation to Ubuntu.

To write some new documentation or improve existing documentation, see here

To discuss the use of this site, see here
To discuss the implementation of this site, see here

Any help to improve this site is appreciated.

Andrew Zajac

launchpad, forums, AndrewZajac.ca