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Josh Saddler wrote: |
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> Hey again. So there's some discussion (again) on starting up an official |
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> Gentoo wiki. Official meaning it's hosted on our infrastructure; e.g. |
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> wiki.gentoo.org. This time the discussion is coming from our fellow |
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> developers and infra overlords. |
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If infra is willing to host it, why not, as long as they keep *all* the fun to |
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themselves. |
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Don't expect GDP to be involved. |
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> I know that the GDP discussed this any number of times on this list, and |
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> some of us (most notably myself and neysx) have discussed it on the |
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> forums, with occasional feedback from other developers. |
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> However, it's been quite awhile since the last time we (the GDP) talked |
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> it over. Given our current issues of manpower and time (see |
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> archives.gentoo.org for commit totals), perhaps a wiki could solve some |
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> issues? |
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> The classic problems are: |
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> 1) Who has access |
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Anyone, it's a wiki |
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> 2) Who reports faulty articles |
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Anyone, it's a wiki |
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> 3) Who fixes them |
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Anyone, it's a wiki |
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> 4) Who verifies the article is correct |
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Anyone, it's a wiki |
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> 5) ??? |
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me too. |
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> 6) Profit |
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Plenty of wor^Wfun for volunteers. |
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> So, I'd like to hear what you think. Should we have a wiki? Why or why |
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> not? If so, for once, does anyone have some *sane* ways to admin and |
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> moderate such a wiki? |
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Just let it live its wiki life. |
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Please let's make sure it is 'officially *hosted*' and it clearly states its |
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content is user-driven and not sanctioned in any way by Gentoo. |
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Use a license that would allow some content to be reused in our docs, you |
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never know, maybe some articles might be worth it. |
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gentoo-wiki.com used to use GFDL license (Public Domain was also mentioned, so |
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no one knows what license people thought they were contributing under). |
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When pointed out to that fact, they blanket relicensed everything under Public |
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Domain. Now they use CC-BY-NC-SA. How would we credit everyone if any article |
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was to be reused? |
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> There's no question that having a properly-administered wiki can be a |
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> powerful asset. Look at Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, the Xfce wiki, etc. What |
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> about Gentoo? |
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> Halcyon has brought it up again on https://bugs.gentoo.org/75855, but |
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> BEFORE I/we go over there and weigh in, let's hash it out here on our |
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> list. :) |
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Actually, there's no reason it should be discussed here. Take it to the forums |
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where the audience is more important. wiki.gentoo.org would be a user-driven |
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resource, just like the forums are, and I think many users would like the idea. |
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My $0.0251120 |
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Wkr, |
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/ Xavier Neys |
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