From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L03EX-00067z-2N for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:05:21 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 86188E02FD; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:05:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D410E02FD for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:05:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from anaconda.krait.us (unknown [74.93.222.225]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1304664D79; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:05:17 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:05:07 +0000 From: Ferris McCormick To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] An official Gentoo wiki Message-ID: <20081112000507.3cac021d@anaconda.krait.us> In-Reply-To: <20081111234532.GG7038@aerie.halcy0n.com> References: <20081111234532.GG7038@aerie.halcy0n.com> Organization: Gentoo X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.5.0 (GTK+ 2.12.11; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_/FkosONtoM=olk3NacbQbsqg"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 34889481-1497-4a69-946b-dd7c49d43744 X-Archives-Hash: dc876f581c7ea2c5b0e4c8e89472e1ac --Sig_/FkosONtoM=olk3NacbQbsqg Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:45:32 -0500 Mark Loeser wrote: > So, gentoo-wiki.com went down for a awhile and took something away from > our users something that is useful. Its back now, but I think we should > consider having our own official wiki that our users can contribute to. > We already have something very similar to this on the forums, and this > would just give the correct tool to put their documentation on. >=20 > I already know some people are going to hate this idea and say that the > documentation could be wrong, etc, so lets look at how others have > handled this situation. It seems that Ubuntu has their own official > documentation section and a community section where users can contribute > to. We can put a nice big warning saying that the user documentation > may have some errors, and that any such errors should not be directed at > the maintainers of the package or the GDP. >=20 > What are others feelings on this? What issues do you see with having a > wiki? Do you see anyway to resolve the issue you see with us having a > wiki? >=20 I'm for it. I think the positives --- more communications paths, community building, providing something our users want --- outweigh the negatives (entries might be incorrect or irrelevant or whatever). I think it's understood that contributions might contain errors, but the can be corrected. I don't know about Ubuntu's community section, but I do find Wikipedia very useful even though I know it might be wrong. :) > --=20 > Mark Loeser > email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org > email - mark AT halcy0n DOT com > web - http://www.halcy0n.com Regards, Ferris -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) Developer, Gentoo Linux (Sparc, Userrel, Trustees) --Sig_/FkosONtoM=olk3NacbQbsqg Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkkaHbsACgkQQa6M3+I///f0oQCg41nIF6njilMpY6iQPqjxAv2d mCIAoIRk0Ev5yqofWUik/1H5JmMtZMv6 =L1US -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/FkosONtoM=olk3NacbQbsqg--