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On Wednesday 18 August 2004 23:43, Sven Vermeulen wrote: |
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> I support _a_ WiKi as _a_ development platform for _unpublished_ |
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> documentation. Once published, I think that a WiKi will put too much |
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> pressure on the document itself as every person can change the entire |
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> document to his or her liking: |
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> - rephraze certain sentences |
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> - use some synonyms to sound more intelligent |
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> - move parts up/down so it fits *your* sense of "Good Documentation" |
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> (not TM'ed) |
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> - add lots of trivial stuff |
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> - add lots of "Off The Wall" information |
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> - add huge parts of verbatim text that doesn't really help much |
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> - ... |
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And of course -- as can be witnessed on gentoo-wiki.com (not an official |
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site) -- there are many cases where people believe something to be true |
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when it is actually incorrect, or incorrect in borderline cases (that |
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still happen often enough though) |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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