Tom Hosiawa wrote: >> Okay, I wasn't aware of that, but I haven't actually visited >> gentoo-wiki.com either. Regardless of the state of that particular >> wiki, I think a wiki would simply be more useful than a weblog, since a >> wiki allows for greater flexibility generally. It might make sense to >> make parts of it or all of it writable only by developers. I think >> allowing users to modify parts of it would be advantageous though, since >> it would provide a better home for the sort of tutorials currently found >> in the forums. > > > This is exactly why I think it'd be a great idea to have a gentoo-wiki > together with the forums. It shouldn't be a replacement, but rather an > extension of the forums. > > The forums are great for answering user questions, but a lot of > information gets lost as searching them isn't so great. It'd be a lot > easier for users to find tutorials in a central place like a wiki than > having to sort through a bunch of none related posts in the forums. Totally agreed. > Why should developers have only the ability to contribute to the wiki? > Isn't that the point of the Gentoo Docs? I know people say it's because > Gentoo wants to ensure accurate information, but how are the forums any > different? You can't guarentee everybodys post's are accurate, so why > should the wiki be any different. One of the things I _love_ about the php.net documentation is the user-contributed comments system (on a per-page basis). It really helps out with a lot. If we were to put up a wiki and enable users to post comments to any of the content therein, I think that we may have arrived at a decent compromise between assuring that content on the wiki (or documentation, if you want to call it so) is accurate, and allowing users to contribute/discuss onsite. Just my $0.02. -- Hasan Khalil Public Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x707B8F18