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Maybe a good idea would be a type of system in which edits would need |
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to be certified as accurate by a developer before added to the site. Or |
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maybe we could have a system where the "unstable version" is editable |
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by anyone, but the stable version (the one that people read if they |
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want to follow a guide) needs to be fact checked by a developer. These |
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solutions tend to take too much time away from developers who'd |
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probably rather be writing the documentation themselves or actually |
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developing (god forbid). Would we still want an officially sanctioned |
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wiki? I think this might be bad because there would be accuracy |
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problems which are common in basically most wikis (look at the |
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wikipedia project, for example). Our accuracy problems might be worse |
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than wikipedia since we probably won't have as many obsessive |
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compulsive people refreshing the recent changes page every second. |
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With that said, I'm currently running a wiki for the macos |
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documentation. I'd like to establish this as an official guide-xml |
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soon. |
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On Aug 8, 2004, at 12:28 PM, Kurt Lieber wrote: |
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> On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 12:05:02PM -0400 or thereabouts, Tom Hosiawa |
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> wrote: |
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>> It wouldn't be a good idea (wiki) as a replacement for the official |
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>> gentoo docs (guide xml), but I think it would be for the forums. |
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>> It's very hard to find anything on the forums since the search is |
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>> horrible. But a user wiki would be very good for all the already |
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>> existant guides in the forums. |
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> We're not going to replace the forums with a wiki. They serve two |
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> totally |
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> different purposes. |
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> I generally dislike wikis and, while I'm not opposed to supporting one |
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> if |
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> the need is clear, I'd rather see a different solution to solving the |
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> user-contributed documentation problem. GLEP 15 would be one example |
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> that's primarily intended for scripts, but the same sort of idea could |
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> used for user-contributed docs as well. |
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> At any rate, nothing is going to get done until someone cares enough to |
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> write up and submit a GLEP for discussion. |
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> --kurt |
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