Drop dev wiki?

[tomangelo]

Because linking in main README.md and CONTRIBUTING.md to forum is fragmentation of informations. You will need to keep up-to-date those informations in two places at once. And it will be hard to keep those infos in coherent form.

Wait, as far as I understand, there will be informations in forum and links in GitHub. How many times will you change the links?

Again and again I say that the forum is only for discussions, not official documenting. We can organize and discuss things here, but the main and official informations should be in place DESIGNED for such kind of informations.

GitHub is designed to keep source code of the project. I've never seen a repo with tons of Readme, there was just such infos like "how to compile and install", that's all, all of such infos like working with models was described on wiki or on forum.

Most of the people have no time to searching infos about technical aspects of the game in such places like forum. They prefer wiki or GitHub, because forum is for discussions and there's usually a mess of blended and (non)important informations. It's hard to writing and discussing on forum and keep that discussions clean.

There is such thing like sticking posts. We can stick one thread with up-to-date list of important threads, with hyperlinks to them.

Why not different READMEs? Every README can be about different technical aspect of the game. When someone will want to contribute in, for example, translations, then he just read TRANSLATING.md and focus on main thing that he need to do and content that he need to provide to us or commit/request himself. The same situation will be when we decide to use GitHub's Wiki. He just go into right page.

Why not different threads on forum? Every thread can be about different technical aspect of the game. When someone will want to contribute in translations, then he just read a thread about translations, with divided descriptions about creating new languages, editing existing one in separate posts, and so on.