[CF-Devel] Crossfire document website

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The crossfire document website is now working well enough to send out notice of it here.  It can be found at 
     
     http://crossfire.freezope.org.
     
       This site is primarily for developers and people wishing to contribute or collaborate on written content for the game (play guides, programmin guides, item and monster descriptions, historical information, code explanations).
 
Right now there is a Wiki to serve as a shared encyclopedia and document colloboration area, a document area where more polished documents can be posted, easily found and commented upon.  There will be no mailing lists or playing aids, or player interaction areas since there are already other good platforms for these activities.  

The common document format for this site is structured text (plain text used in a structured way - read about it on the wiki) and it should be possible to either use these documents directly in the crossfire CVS package or easily convert them to a suitable format that can be included into the packages. Hopefully this will make it easier to keep these things updated and relevant.  There are programs out there that convert structured text to XML, HTML, PDF and many more so I think it is a good carrying format for these purposes (not to mention it is wiki's native format and I wanted to use a wiki).

So go check it out, use it.  It's not fun but maybe it is better way to manage the papertrail. If you have any suggestions or features you'd like to see, you can use the SuggestionBox on the wiki (if no one has made it yet you can create it by typing 'SuggestionBox' in the wiki...)
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