Gentoo Archives: gentoo-doc

From: "Thomas Raschbacher (Gentoo)" <lordvan@g.o>
To: gentoo-doc@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-doc] Wiki, Take #whatever
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:23:06
Message-Id: 1226485346.3378.4.camel@hp_tablet
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-doc] Wiki, Take #whatever by Xavier Neys
1 On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 18:30 +0100, Xavier Neys wrote:
2 > Thomas Raschbacher (Gentoo) wrote:
3 > > On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 11:41 +0100, Goran Mekić wrote:
4 > >>> So, I'd like to hear what you think. Should we have a wiki? Why or why
5 > >> If you try to simplify things (suppose there's no spam, no obuse),
6 > >> wiki could be a great pool of potetial official documentation. As I
7 > >> see it, this is the greates value of wiki. "Just" pick good articles,
8 > >> refine them and move them to official docs. As a person who never
9 > >> administrated wiki, I have no clue how to secure it.
10 > >
11 > > How practical/possible is it to add some kind of 'verified by a
12 > > developer / moderator' flag / tag which cannot be changed by normal
13 > > users and only applies to a specific version of the page?
14 >
15 > Simply impossible.
16 > Sure you can have some 'officially sanctioned' tag on articles, but how do you
17 > garantee it keeps this status.
18 > Anytime anything changes in the article (easy to detect) or anywhere else in
19 > GentooLand and the content can become very wrong.
20 >
21 > Let users "vote" on articles, comment on them, provide feedback, and obviously
22 > edit content... Let the wiki live its wiki life.
23 >
24 > Wkr,
25
26 Well basically you'd have to lock the pages which are really important
27 or just really well written with a link to another page aobut discussing
28 it (someone else mentioned that in another mail on this thread)
29
30 Also i have to point out that the 'vote' approach would have the same
31 problems if it just votes on the article nto a specific revision of
32 it .. ;)