Re: [gentoo-dev] An official Gentoo wiki

[Ben Sanchez <bensanchz@gmail.com>]

Are you considering to replace the mediawiki with a different wiki system such 
as moinmoin?

On Wednesday 12 November 2008 7:49:58 am Michael Hammer wrote:
> * Gokdeniz Karadag <gokdeniz@ceng.metu.edu.tr> [081112 13:06]:
> > Petteri Räty demis ki::
> > > Michael Hammer wrote:
> > > We should develop some kind of review process and at least the
> > > possiblity to lock and hide pages of poor quality. In the most cases
> > > the howtos are related to some herds. What if we have a "reviewed
> > > section" where herds can approve pages and user can be sure that the
> > > infos provided have a minimum of quality.
> > >
> > > We already have a reviewed section. It's called GDP.
>
> You're fully right! The GDP can therefore be the reviewed sections
> where documents from the wiki are transfered to.
>
> > The wiki can be a staging ground for user contributed documents, which
> > can become part of official docs after a review and cleanup by
> > developers.
>
> That's the way I intended my proposal. As some kind of early state GDP
> documents. It's an unwritten fact that user are willing to contribute
> to wiki systems - but I've never received an xml file for our GDP
> written by a user ;) ... The wiki can be the place to develop new
> howtos by disburding the devs - IMHO.
>
> g, mueli