Welcome to FreeBSD forums.
The underlying technologies are very different.
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https://wiki.freebsd.org/FrontPage?action=fullsearch&context=180&value=Xorg&titlesearch=Titles> might be a more realistic representation of what can be found with MoinMoin
without resorting to full-text search.
I don't know about ArchWiki, but generally: wiki editing can be
horribly frustrating;
MoinMoin is no exception – note, the expression of pain.
I did
some work on Graphics a couple of months ago. More recently,
this (
partial diff (fourteen versions)) because it was part of the process that led to:
Hello everyone, The call for proposals has been sent out. -- Joe (with Foundation hat on)
forums.freebsd.org
FreeBSD Documentation Project | The FreeBSD Project refers to
the current list of projects – the wiki is used for the list, but the wiki itself is not an FDP project.
I can't find what's required in FreeBSD Discord :-( but if I recall correctly, there's an intention to retire (archive, whatever) a variety of wiki pages.
Thank you. You know, the spirit I felt in using FreeBSD the first time (with some knowledge from Linux) was like to discover a new meal I never ate before and it is tasting really good.
As for the topic about underlying technology the FreeBSD wiki is using: It does
not interest a new user while using the FreeBSD wiki.
Is it working or not is the first intention a new user does have.
Should a new user think: "Oh, it is not working as great as the wiki of anothers distribution I like, so they probably have too much work to do or they are not as good as them - I will try to consider that they do not have a good working wiki because I am a new user....."
A new user wants (if he is hesitated not to disturb and waste the time of other in asking where is the config file of the application XY) a simple wiki, nothing fancy, text only to search with a browser's search function and to find quickly find the wiki site which is handling the keyword the user is searching at most, would be enough to have a good starting point. And these users are probably the ones you want.
Users which integrates in the community nicely.
You state, that maybe I should try searching for title's, not text.
That is a mess, too.
For a brief moment, try to compare FreeBSDs wiki with the wiki of Arch Linux, to mess with the best (about the wiki topic).
Try to find five topics you wanna handle in your system, even if you don't do. But you know the best what topics are difficult and needs to reread now and then. In example: samba, Xorg, dnsmasq, Network managers, List of recommended applications, Bios update, Installation guide, ...
Just for the configuration part of an OS like FreeBSD - what a new user wants - not for development.
I tried that and the search results are a mess in FreeBSDs wiki.
Search in a search machine of your choice for: "wiki.freebsd.org howto install"
Search again with the words: "wiki.archlinux.org howto install"
See the difference in user-friendlyness?
FreeBSDs wiki is not using keywords it seems, neither topics focusing on the point.
Other things FreeBSD can avoid to not make the same mistakes, like use entirely systemD because "everyone else do"...
SystemD is now trying to get into the kernel and that's my signal to look for alternatives. Even if Linux worked for me all the years. But now it seems corruption and profit is directing the decision makers of most big distributions of Linux.
If FreeBSDs wiki does not work the way it should be intentionally, maybe build up another one and exchange them if it is working the way the users like? For the beginning it could be plain english and if the user base grows, helpful users will translate the wiki sites in different languages with the hint, always to prefer to use the english version because it is the most up to date wiki site about a topic.
I know it is work. But the fundament needs always to be setup the best way for others to build up and help.
Currently (for me it seems), to work for the FreeBSD wiki would be a hell of a work. (*tehehe* You see the coincidence?
) It is simpler to start over. The way of the least resistance and most healthy and time saving way for the foreseeable future (while looking around if this way was made up on purpose by others). Sounds suspicious? It is!
And FreeBSD Discord? ...really? A closed source, third party, unsecured way of communicating to each other, because mostly gamers are using Discord, communication platform? Well, nothing to complain - it is time of FreeBSDler spending their time.
Then they probably also using the third party platform telegram? Yep. Good to know. Is it official? I do not know. The site freebsd.org does not offer any information about this.
Does FreeBSD have a matrix channel? Searching "FreeBSD matrix channel" does not seem so.
Does FreeBSD have at least an IRC channel? Yep. First search entry. Maybe because it is the "oldest" realtime communication method. Even changed from freenode (I think) to libera.chat. Yay.
And - it - is - hellish - official! ->
https://wiki.freebsd.org/IRC/Channels
As you can see, FreeBSD's public relations is
not clean and
not easy to use.