discuss: status report author checkup
Subject:
Re: status report author checkup
From:
Machtelt Garrels ####@####.####
Date:
12 Aug 2005 08:43:30 -0000
Message-Id: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0508120837590.29139-100000@cobra.xalasys.com>
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On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, David Lawyer wrote:
> But wikis to discuss a doc? Good idea perhaps (but see above), except
> I wonder how many readers would find it. What % of readers download
> howtos (such as the Debian packages) and read them off-line? Then
> online readers many use Google, etc. to find just a section of a
> howto, and never know there is a wiki for comments, since they never
> read the part of the howto that links to the wiki.
Apart from my personal aversion, I am worried about a couple of things:
- - How does wiki-usage relate to our mirror sites?
- - Apart from all the useless comments by readers of good faith, how about
those small-minded people who use impolite and rude language?
- - Wiki-to-docbook/linuxdoc: does that mean that wiki comments can directly
be used to change a document, presumbly by the author? I don't see how
this would work...
> The vapor-ware database for LDP was going to tie in with wikis and
> that would make the wikis more valuable. This database could be used
> to email the author the changes made to the wiki. A good database
> and content management system is needed by LDP much more than a wiki,
> but it's a lot more work to implement.
Agreed. I don't know anything about databases or it would already have
been there. We need
- - somebody who is committed
- - agreement of iBiblio
- - overview of data that should be managed in a DB
Tille.
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Machtelt Garrels ####@####.####
Review Coordinator http://www.tldp.org/authors/
My Penguin, my freedom. http://tille.xalasys.com
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