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On Aug 19, 2004, at 10:57 am, Paul de Vrieze wrote: |
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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... |
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> And of course -- as can be witnessed on gentoo-wiki.com (not an |
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> 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... |
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But the great thing about a wiki is that you're able to correct it. |
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It does not take long to add only "THIS IS INCORRECT - see |
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http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/12345", and it is a |
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pointer in the right direction. |
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I do not find the format of the forums terribly usable, but they're |
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very popular with a large segment of the Gentoo community. A wiki would |
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surely be a better format for user-contributed docs than the current |
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state, in which several pages of "this worked for me, too" and "has |
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anyone tried this with the ALL0271?" are interspersed with the |
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occasional useful nugget of information, correction & update. That is a |
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lot to wade through to get to the facts. |
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If a Gentoo wiki were to be accepted as an official project, then its |
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documents could be published on a "Gentoo accepts no liability" basis. |
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Should any wiki documents be founds meritsome enough & a -dev be found |
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to maintain them then they could then be accepted as official & static |
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documents. I would have thought this would be a potentially fantastic |
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recruitment ground for -docs. |
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Stroller. |
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