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On 4 April 2010 16:33, AllenJB <gentoo-lists@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> I'd like to ask what you think in launching a site that simply clones an |
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> existing site is? Why take all the hard work the editors have put into |
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> their articles on the unofficial wiki and duplicate them on another |
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> site, creating TWO copies, both of which may be updated with different |
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> information. |
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Starting a wiki under the Gentoo umbrella is not about duplicating |
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effort. It is about providing services that we currently don't and |
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for which there is an apparent need. |
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First and foremost it is about providing developers a place for easy |
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(collaborative) editing of documents, so they wouldn't have to resort |
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to either less practical solutions within gentoo.org, or external |
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resources not under gentoo.org. |
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Secondly, this would be a good place to centralize efforts by both |
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users and developers to collaborate on generating, consolidating and |
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maintaining documentation. Currently these are scattered over a |
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number of places, as Dror has mentioned. We do not want to duplicate |
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effort, but work together to bring the various efforts as much as |
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possible into one place, a one-stop shop for all good and relevant |
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information about Gentoo. |
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> any site I find copying articles I've |
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> contributed to (and certainly the ones I wrote from scratch) will suffer |
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> all the wrath and abuse I can bring to it. |
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Then you shouldn't contribute to a wiki that has a license that |
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allows just that. |
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> An official wiki should not be used to duplicate the existing unofficial |
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> wiki (and I don't believe this is the intent of the developers who want |
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> one). |
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Not duplicate, but centralize and facilitate more collaboration. And |
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give it more recognition and better quality control. And host it on |
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the number one community site we have: gentoo.org, with all the |
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infrastructure support that entails. |
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Cheers, |
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Ben de Groot |
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Gentoo Linux Qt project lead developer |