Merge with Wiki?

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What would you want? Looking for readers opinions!

Merge it!
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Link to it from the Wiki.
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Wikify it!
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Wikify and add it to the OSDev Wiki.
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Don't do anything--keep it stand alone.
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Merge with Wiki?

Post by neon »

Hey everyone,

As you may know, I have been developing a series of tutorials for building a 32 bit OS, step by step from the ground up.

It can be reached here

I have had several readers suggest merging my series with this site Wiki, or adding a link to it.

I would like to hear opinions on weather(sp?) I should go for it, and if so, how? i.e., How would I add it to the Wiki (Process, please)?

I have also been told of turning the tutorial into a Wiki, so that anyone can add to it. I have coinsidered this. This would help insure the accuricy(sp?) of the information, fix possible errors, and make the tutorial very good.

I am Looking for opinions on this. :D

Thanks!
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Post by Smilediver »

I'd suggest to wikify it, but maybe have a small tutorial with links to the necessary pages. For example, tutorial might sound like this:

First, you need to remap the PICs. To do this read pages here and there.
Secondly, you need to initialize interrupt handling. To do this read pages here and there.
Now it would be nice to have memory management. Read about virtual memory here, memory managers there.
And so on.
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Post by Combuster »

The wiki content is public domain. Your work is copyrighted. If you really want a merge with the wiki, you'll have to give up all rights.

Since the tutorials are self-contained, I think a link will suffice.
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Post by JamesM »

imho the wiki is a research resource. There are many tutorials out there, some being made by myself, for example. I think that merging them all into the wiki would be counterproductive - it might make finding definitive information harder (as there are more documents about the same subject voicing different opinions, as opposed to many developers agreeing and producing the same document.)

Apart from the barebones stuff, which has been there for ever, I think there should not be tutorials merged into the wiki. Links would be better, imho.
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