Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Blog GLEP

[Hasan Khalil]

Tom Hosiawa wrote:

>> Okay, I wasn't aware of that, but I haven't actually visited
>> gentoo-wiki.com either.  Regardless of the state of that particular
>> wiki, I think a wiki would simply be more useful than a weblog, since a
>> wiki allows for greater flexibility generally.  It might make sense to
>> make parts of it or all of it writable only by developers.  I think
>> allowing users to modify parts of it would be advantageous though, since
>> it would provide a better home for the sort of tutorials currently found
>> in the forums.
>
>
> This is exactly why I think it'd be a great idea to have a gentoo-wiki
> together with the forums. It shouldn't be a replacement, but rather an
> extension of the forums.
>
> The forums are great for answering user questions, but a lot of
> information gets lost as searching them isn't so great. It'd be a lot
> easier for users to find tutorials in a central place like a wiki than
> having to sort through a bunch of none related posts in the forums.

Totally agreed.

> Why should developers have only the ability to contribute to the wiki?
> Isn't that the point of the Gentoo Docs? I know people say it's because
> Gentoo wants to ensure accurate information, but how are the forums any
> different? You can't guarentee everybodys post's are accurate, so why
> should the wiki be any different.

One of the things I _love_ about the php.net documentation is the 
user-contributed comments system (on a per-page basis). It really helps 
out with a lot. If we were to put up a wiki and enable users to post 
comments to any of the content therein, I think that we may have arrived 
at a decent compromise between assuring that content on the wiki (or 
documentation, if you want to call it so) is accurate, and allowing 
users to contribute/discuss onsite.

Just my $0.02.

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Hasan Khalil <gongloo@g.o>
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