Lets face it the documentation for Webmin, Virtualmin and Usermin is sourly lacking. That is not a criticism of the developers. Webmin, Virtualmin and Usermin are fantastic and must take all their time to develop and maintain let alone write comprehensive documentation to go with it.
For a while now I have been thinking about how they could solve this problem. I think it would be very useful to have a wiki where we could write descriptions of what each screen is for and step by step instructions hot to use each feature. I know that is what the forum is for but if there was better documentation then the forum could be a point to what is lacking in the wiki.
My thought is that the wiki would take the following layout
Webmin
Overall Description
Webmin
Backup Configuration Files
Description
Step by step instruction and comments on how to use the feature
Change Language and Theme
Usermin Configuration
Webmin Actions Log
Webmin Configuration
Webmin Servers Index
Webmin Users
System
Servers
Others
Networking
Hardware
Cluster
Virtualmin
Overall Description
Virtualmin
Create Virtual Server
Description
Step by step instruction and comments on how to use the feature
Edit Virtual Server
Edit Users
Edit Mail Aliases
Edit Databases
Install Scripts
basically follow the structure of Webmin, Virtualmin and Usermin and the have a section with a description and a section below that for Step by step instruction and comments on how to use the feature. The developers would have to setup the wiki and the overall structure and them we could all register to add and edit the documentation. With a lot of people adding and correcting the wiki could be a fantastic resource very quickly. I am sure that the developers would have to do some editing but take it for some one who knows deiting takes less than 5% of the time to write in the first place.
If any one else has any suggestions please chime in
AllanIT