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 1L03Ua-0008J2-1S for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:21:56 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4BEA0E026B; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:21:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.175]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C46EE026E for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:21:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 30so899077ugs.39 for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:21:36 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:subject :message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer:mime-version :content-type; bh=MDODYyDtFWyD64MGehNkkElig6NVRlHy5dRap7/9fNI=; b=YDWCVUAJhwlU75xJ10GrDzHRHMRa3q1+zBRPbTK+cW1rnCLWuGEfbMQ1JNVwYSHCZ1 204OqbwlKo0sSZHxnuDEZeSWivlzHpuKK2PgoyFfn7CLWpv5tZ2U2aNqsS1uYdt/PG1l 8KKp7Vh+GlLGwesMuUhP1CuemS4zCjpUCEzcI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer :mime-version:content-type; b=lpZU6YVUZ80jRtd6P+LeaP7r1B58waYblSF2RM9whMbZgvBtHvK/gumS9NjkRxeJeb jXKC6oTLLpVVwDTSu16npfLarpcZiwT77Cl/+O2mAG/JCOfZB/WFbmcvgJJWFDob92Mw 9RMWYYA9ZdbHVeG8fG+bBLMkJT3pYqyAh9EMs= Received: by 10.67.21.11 with SMTP id y11mr3311862ugi.6.1226449295882; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:21:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from snowmobile (92-235-187-79.cable.ubr18.edin.blueyonder.co.uk [92.235.187.79]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id o7sm124627uge.0.2008.11.11.16.21.31 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:21:35 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:21:16 +0000 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] An official Gentoo wiki Message-ID: <20081112002116.12e12ac2@snowmobile> In-Reply-To: <20081111234532.GG7038@aerie.halcy0n.com> References: <20081111234532.GG7038@aerie.halcy0n.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.6.1 (GTK+ 2.14.4; i686-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_/mCCvdy5_kMedcv5=YjsM432"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 3bfaec40-070d-4505-86a4-c99fe9c9e940 X-Archives-Hash: 36c0881e5d68fd5405de1277c4bdee87 --Sig_/mCCvdy5_kMedcv5=YjsM432 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:45:32 -0500 Mark Loeser wrote: > 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? What will policy on articles that are horribly dangerous or outright wrong? Is Gentoo prepared to block or warn about articles that recommend stupid things? If a warning is used, what will be used to distinguish between a generic "wiki, not necessarily checked by sane people" and a "article known to be horrible"? The problem with wikis is that enough of them contain enough good information that people assume that all of them are entirely correct. Even if warnings are used, the assumption is often "well I was warned about another article too and that turned out OK so I can ignore the warning". And whilst it might be OK for some people to say "well, we warned you, so tough luck", it makes life very difficult for developers who end up having to deal with hordes of users with broken systems... --=20 Ciaran McCreesh --Sig_/mCCvdy5_kMedcv5=YjsM432 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkkaIYEACgkQ96zL6DUtXhEZ3ACgph+qilkOW8L+AmbJZXhbCz7H kY0AnA1fa/qt8lAFntFzgXoJeQ6cOEha =1TKi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/mCCvdy5_kMedcv5=YjsM432--