{"id":121,"date":"2007-07-04T07:18:54","date_gmt":"2007-07-04T07:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntucat.wordpress.com\/2007\/07\/04\/documentation-fragmentation\/"},"modified":"2007-07-04T07:18:54","modified_gmt":"2007-07-04T07:18:54","slug":"documentation-fragmentation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/documentation-fragmentation\/","title":{"rendered":"Documentation Fragmentation"},"content":{"rendered":"

I remember two years ago, when I first started using Ubuntu, I went to look for help and found the official Wiki.<\/a> I clicked about three links deep and decided it was too difficult to find what I was looking for. The page layouts were confusing, and I had no idea what the documentation was saying. Then, somehow, I found out about the Ubuntu Guide<\/a> and fell in love with it. Before that, I had been deathly (and quite irrationally) afraid of the command-line. There was something comforting about seeing all those commands, one after the other, laid out together on one long page. Somehow, to me back then, that didn’t seem as overwhelming as the Wiki. <\/p>\n

Then I found out about the Ubuntu Forums<\/a> and later about The Ubuntu Documentation Storage Facility<\/a>. <\/p>\n

At some point along the way, I decided to create my own Ubuntu tutorials site, which turned into the Psychocats Ubuntu site<\/a>. Even though many people have been encouraging about my efforts and have told me how useful they’ve found my work to be, I have had a couple of people say something to the effect of Why are you creating another tutorial site? Why not just contribute to the Wiki?<\/i> <\/p>\n

Well, there were a few reasons I didn’t contribute to the Wiki: <\/p>\n