Micro.blog wiki - any interest going forward?

I’ve been working on a micro.blog wiki. It’s a slow proccess, which I mentioned more in detail on my blog.

As of now, the wiki (which is hosted on Gitlab) is a general place where I keep other stuff, but I’m going to clean it up. The micro.blog section can be found here. The wiki itself is just the index.html file (not including the images) and can be downloaded without cloning the whole repository.

My goal is to keep updating this wiki as I can, especially as more features are added to micro.blog. I’m working from my own knowledge, and I’m definitely not an expert, so it would be best if someone can review it at some point…?

I know what I’m asking may raise an eyebrow or two. I’m not expecting anyone to add more work to their load and look up at a wiki I felt like doing out of nowhere. So, this is my first question, if this is a good way to do it, is there a better way to approach this which might work more in line with what we do in MB… please, let me know. I just too initiative because I didn’t see something like that yet, in the two years I worked on it (with a huge gap in the middle).

I will need some help with mostly reviewing some parts and answering questions. For exmaple, this article is going to be split 3 into sections, which follow the three main sections of the navigation pane in mb to the left on the web interface. The question is, why are these devided to these groups, and why three sections? What’s the idea behind those?

Going forward, I will have more questions. I can organize them in an emails on a weekly basis, or something that makes more sense to whoever feel like they want to help. I don’t mind reaching out and scheduling something more like a 1:1 if that works too, I’ve been doing this sort of thing for work for a couple of years so I’m no stranger to the process of writing these sort of documentations.

So… what do you think? Is there interest? Is it too much for now?

Thanks!

I think this is a good idea. Micro.blog’s functionality is quite broad, can change somewhat frequently, and can be somewhat hidden. Plus updates can be lost if you don’t catch the blog post that announces it (for the ones that don’t make it here on the help center)

I’d be partial to the developer level features/api being a bit more documented and can easily see the need for the various clients to have screenshots and walk-throughs for common use cases/issues. Customizing themes is another big area (and probably outside the scope of what you’re envisioning :laughing:)

I don’t mind reviewing and answering questions you send my way (at least the ones I know the answer to :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:). This kind of reminds me of https://custom.micro.blog/ that was active for a bit. Will this remain bundled in your wiki as a subsection or do you envision it as it’s own “Unofficial fans of micro.blog“ thing (separate wiki/website? custom domain?). Just thinking out loud here.

:slight_smile: Loura

I had no idea @Miraz had this up..! I’ll definitely read up about it.

My wiki is in the repository I mentioned, but I’m more than happy to send you a note if with more detailed questions. I’m very green on GitLab, so I don’t know how to do it “the right way,” but since it’s all an HTML file (not including the images), you can essentially add things there as well. I’d also be happy to learn how to use GitLab for that, if you have the time/patience.

I’ll monitor this thread a bit better going forward, sorry :grimacing: