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From: Patrick Nagel <mail@...>
Subject: Re: Re: [RFC] Gentoo Wiki Project
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 10:42:40 +0800
Hi,

On 2010-04-08 19:51 UTC Ryan Hill wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 20:12:49 +0200
> 
> Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o> wrote:
> > After the mostly positive feedback on the recent wiki discussion, we
> > have now gone ahead, formed a preliminary team consisting of both
> > users and developers, and put up a project page [1]. All constructive
> > feedback on this new project is welcome.
> 
> why are we setting up a user wiki when a very popular one already exists? 
> it seems like a complete duplication of effort.  i'm not saying don't do
> it, i'm just baffled why we would.

Well, one reason could be, that the "unofficial" one lost its whole database 
once, and there were other multiple multi-day outages in the past. I expect an 
official Wiki to have a reasonable availability and not losing most of the 
content, breaking links all over the net for months.

Patrick.

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