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*clearly* there is something preventing this unofficial documentation |
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from becoming official, else there would be no wiki. |
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Joshua |
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Corey Shields wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 17 August 2004 06:23 pm, Jeremy Maitin-Shepard wrote: |
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>>Okay, I wasn't aware of that, but I haven't actually visited |
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>>gentoo-wiki.com either. Regardless of the state of that particular |
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>>wiki, I think a wiki would simply be more useful than a weblog, since a |
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>>wiki allows for greater flexibility generally. It might make sense to |
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>>make parts of it or all of it writable only by developers. I think |
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>>allowing users to modify parts of it would be advantageous though, since |
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>>it would provide a better home for the sort of tutorials currently found |
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>>in the forums. |
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> I really can't support an official wiki. If our current method of |
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> documentation and support totally sucked then it would be a different story, |
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> but we are known for excellent documentation, and there is a system of checks |
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> and balances in the documentation process that you just don't get from a |
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> wiki. Otherwise, you end up with phrases like "While most poeple use would |
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> use this : " which makes no sense (taken from the first page I visited at |
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> the above url). I feel that a wiki would be taking a step backwards.. |
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> If there is a piece of documentation that someone has written and feels it |
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> should be included, by all means, post it to bugs.gentoo.org. While I can't |
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> speak for them, I'm pretty sure that the documentation team would love the |
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> contribution. |
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> As for the earlier comment that a wiki could be used in place of a planet |
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> site, that's like using Excel to write your letters. Sure, you could do it, |
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> but it's not the best tool for the job. |
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> Cheers, |
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> - -Corey |
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> Corey Shields |
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> Gentoo Linux Infrastructure Team and Devrel Team |
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> Gentoo Foundation Board of Trustees |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/~cshields |
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