"Improve this page"

Brad Anderson eco at gnuk.net
Thu Mar 15 21:14:18 PDT 2012


I have a pending pull request 
<https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/d-programming-language.org/pull/98> 
which adds an "Improve this page" button to the upper right 
corner all pages on the website.  From the pull request 
description: "It essentially turns the website into a moderated 
wiki. How it works is for each page it links to a special URL on 
GitHub that will offer to fork the repository, open an online 
text editor, and create a pull request in one easy process."

It's meant for simple changes (typos, rewording stuff, minor bugs 
in code examples, etc.). I got the idea after using the GitHub 
online editor myself to make website and Phobos documentation 
change pull requests and finding it to be very easy way to 
contribute. Even people who are unfamiliar with git can use it.

Andrei seemed to like it when I showed him but asked me to get 
Walter and whoever else's opinions on it before he'd be willing 
to merged it.

You can try a live demo here: http://gnuk.net/d/index.html

Clicking the button will open the appropriate file in an editor 
on GitHub. Feel free to click the button to see what the editor 
is like. Nothing happens until you choose to submit your changes 
at which point it lets you enter a pull request description, then 
it finally makes the request.

This would probably have been difficult to implement if it 
weren't for Ddoc so +1 for Ddoc.

Regards,
Brad Anderson


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