sh.itjust.works

Despite the name, the nixlang wiki is a community contributor wiki to document things around nix that the maintainers haven't gotten around to, to short-circuit the lengthy review process for the official documentation, and an attempt to make an entry into the nix ecosystem easier.

It's difficult to write things from a perspective of somebody who doesn't know, despite once being that person!

It would be great to have some feedback on the wiki.

P.S I'm not the maintainer, just a contributor.

Came across a new nix wiki attempt. The announcement post is made on discourse with high skepticism.

But I really like it for two reasons:

• For now, its incredibly informal and the barrier to entry is low. And because I can make edits directly in the web interface, it felt easy to contribute.
• The creator mentions wanting this to be like the Arch wiki. In other words, contain information useful to nix users, but not necessarily nix specifically.

I was able to contribute a new article about distrobox, a tool I discovered and made a post about here a month or so ago.

Maybe we don't "need" another wiki, but the opportunity to contribute really made this one stand out to me. In case you all might want to contribute or learn something, I thought I would share.