discuss: Thread: TLDP and WIkipedia

Stein Gjoen wrote:

> We could find volunteers for a few HOWTOs for full Wiki treatment
> and some for Wiki commenting alone. That might give us a few early
> impressions without committing too many resources.

very good
jdd


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>...
With regards to TLDP's number of hits a day,
adding Wiki capabilities could only increase that.

Because, then, suddenly, people may have a 
reason to visit the site other than to lookup
documents.

I think it may be fair to say that having a proper
wiki would eventually attract its own audience..

> > In my spirit the simplest way is howto page locked by author (can be
> > unlocked if necessary, for example in updating process) and discussion
> > page open. Only ahtors volutary howto setup here.

It would be undesirable and would about defeat
the point of trying a Wiki in the first place.

You must be considering some different advantage
of Wiki technology, but...

I assume HOWTO authors have little difficulty
managing their documents themselves under the
present system,  the point of a Wiki, as I see it,
would be to allow people in the community to
provide input more easily,  fix errors or 
make updates, etc, and easily start drafting
new documents.

Requiring registration isn't that bad, for a Wiki,
by the way -- people register for sites all the time,
it takes all of 2 minutes to do so.

A little longer if registrants are required to have
an e-mail address, perhaps

As for anti-linux crowd vandalism, which probably
wouldn't be -that- much a problem,  
compared to the more general problem..
even pro-linux trolls could be a problem,
spewing garbage, regardless of whether or not
it is pro-linux or anti-linux.

Garbage is garbage, and spam is spam.


That's the major reason why you would need/want
a way to mark stable revisions for publication
in the first place.

 

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Mysid wrote:

> That's the major reason why you would need/want
> a way to mark stable revisions for publication
> in the first place.

it's also possible to make on the wiki (for any HOWTO 
involved) an locked page with the current revision, an open 
one with the same thing for users editing purpose and anyway 
any page has it's own discussion page.

lock/unlock can be done directly by the author, may be on a 
calendar way (open from given date to given other).

of course, if we do so, all this must be explained to the 
authors. I can help for writting a HOWTO tldp writing :-).

But we should rapidly build a experimental page to show what 
it's about.

see here the administrative way of mediawiki

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Administration

jdd

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