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Hi all, |
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First of all, for those of you who don't know, I'm an admin on the new |
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Gentoo-Wiki.com and was a long time contributor before that on the old |
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wiki. Having said that, while the wiki did occasionally go down, a loss |
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like the one that happened will be less likely to happen again as a |
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proper offsite backup policy is now in place. |
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While I would be pleased to see a wiki hosted on official resources as |
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Gentoo probably have far more resources at their disposal than any user |
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run site could hope to acquire. |
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However, in saying that I would be concerned about an officially hosted |
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wiki from what I've read so far. |
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It's been suggested that the wiki be moderated by forum mods. I believe |
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that a separate team would be needed. Administering the wiki takes at |
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least an hour a day (estimate, once it's at "full steam" - it's been |
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quiet recently due to the down time, but it's slowly getting busier), |
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and that's without considering extra work into tidying up articles - |
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making sure they are properly formatted and they don't contain any |
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obvious errors or bad practices. |
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There's also been no discussion on how foreign languages would be |
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handled. The new wiki has more supported languages than before - the |
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current list (from the topic of #gentoo-wiki on EFNet) is: |
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en,cs,de,es,fi,fr,nl,ru,tr |
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You also need to think about the style in which articles on the wiki |
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should be written and the templates used. What will policies be on |
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creation of new templates? What will the page naming conventions be? |
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While a true wiki is open to editing by all, and you may opt to protect |
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certain articles (because you deem them to be "official" or whatever), |
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you will still need admins who will handle spam, page deletions and user |
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restrictions. You will obviously want admins for each language you |
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support. Who will they be and what will the recruitment process be? Will |
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they get any training? |
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If you intend to create a wiki to replace gentoo-wiki.com, how will you |
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handle this? If the wikis end up running side-by-side, will you have |
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policies on copying from gentoo-wiki.com? (You should probably have |
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policies on copying from other wikis anyway) |
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There are probably some other topics I've missed above, but as you can |
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see there's a lot that I believe needs to be discussed but hasn't been |
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at all. Everyone's saying "yes" for an official wiki, but how much |
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thought is going into how it would actually work? |
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AllenJB |
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