id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	version	resolution	keywords	cc
72	Wiki-like interface	waern		"There have been various suggestions about adding a wiki-like interface to Haddock, to be able to quickly suggest improvements by editing documentation directly on the page.

The system could produce a darcs patch or diff against the current source of the documented module, based on the modification. This patch could be sent to e.g. the libraries@haskell.org list or to the maintainer of the package.

Some people have suggested that it should be possible to directly update the documentation (but not the source), with an option for viewing the current or source-based docs.

Several extensions to this can be imagined:
  - comments on other peoples comments/modifications (reddit[1]/forum-style)
  - ranking of modifications/comments (reddit-style)

The benefit of reddit-like commenting is that a suggested modification can be discussed and improved by other users reading the same doc, without having to subscribe to a mailing list. This would probably generate more discussions and more participants in discussions. For some packages, a @libraries discussion is of course always needed in the end.

Please use this ticket for discussing the design and implementation of these features! To begin with, we could discuss how to just implement a wiki-like way of editing the documentation to produce a patch.

We should also look at other similar system. One of them is Annotated CPAN [2].

[1] http://www.reddit.com/

[2] http://www.annocpan.org/"	enhancement	new	major