ArchWiki's Secrets to Success: Lessons from DebConf25
2025-08-14
Arch Linux's ArchWiki is renowned in the Linux community for its high-quality documentation. At DebConf25, ArchWiki maintainers shared their secrets, covering content strategy, contribution guidelines, and community management. While leveraging MediaWiki's strengths—comprehensive, high-quality, and up-to-date content—they also addressed challenges like the complexity of MediaWiki markup, the high barrier to entry for contributors, and threats from AI-generated content and scraping bots. Future plans include improving community involvement, developing more editor tools, and cautiously incorporating AI. The presentation inspired Debian to revamp its wiki using MediaWiki.
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