Josh Saddler wrote:
> Hey again. So there's some discussion (again) on starting up an official
> Gentoo wiki. Official meaning it's hosted on our infrastructure; e.g.
> wiki.gentoo.org. This time the discussion is coming from our fellow
> developers and infra overlords.

If infra is willing to host it, why not, as long as they keep *all* the fun to
themselves.
Don't expect GDP to be involved.

> I know that the GDP discussed this any number of times on this list, and
> some of us (most notably myself and neysx) have discussed it on the
> forums, with occasional feedback from other developers.
> 
> However, it's been quite awhile since the last time we (the GDP) talked
> it over. Given our current issues of manpower and time (see
> archives.gentoo.org for commit totals), perhaps a wiki could solve some
> issues?
> 
> The classic problems are:
> 1) Who has access

Anyone, it's a wiki

> 2) Who reports faulty articles

Anyone, it's a wiki

> 3) Who fixes them

Anyone, it's a wiki

> 4) Who verifies the article is correct

Anyone, it's a wiki

> 5) ???

me too.

> 6) Profit

Plenty of wor^Wfun for volunteers.

> So, I'd like to hear what you think. Should we have a wiki? Why or why
> not? If so, for once, does anyone have some *sane* ways to admin and
> moderate such a wiki?

Just let it live its wiki life.

Please let's make sure it is 'officially *hosted*' and it clearly states its
content is user-driven and not sanctioned in any way by Gentoo.

Use a license that would allow some content to be reused in our docs, you
never know, maybe some articles might be worth it.
gentoo-wiki.com used to use GFDL license (Public Domain was also mentioned, so
no one knows what license people thought they were contributing under).
When pointed out to that fact, they blanket relicensed everything under Public
Domain. Now they use CC-BY-NC-SA. How would we credit everyone if any article
was to be reused?

> There's no question that having a properly-administered wiki can be a
> powerful asset. Look at Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, the Xfce wiki, etc. What
> about Gentoo?
> 
> Halcyon has brought it up again on https://bugs.gentoo.org/75855, but
> BEFORE I/we go over there and weigh in, let's hash it out here on our
> list. :)

Actually, there's no reason it should be discussed here. Take it to the forums
 where the audience is more important. wiki.gentoo.org would be a user-driven
resource, just like the forums are, and I think many users would like the idea.

My $0.0251120


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