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 1L03P4-0007Zp-1J for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:16:14 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 48780E023C; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:16:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.netspace.net.au (mail-out5.netspace.net.au [203.10.110.92]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBD18E023C for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:16:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [172.16.0.52] (ppp246-231.static.internode.on.net [203.122.246.231]) by mail.netspace.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69B2517553A for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:16:04 +1100 (EST) Message-ID: <491A2028.2040700@netspace.net.au> Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:45:36 +0930 From: Iain Buchanan User-Agent: Thunderbird/3.0a2 (X11; 2008072418) 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] An official Gentoo wiki References: <20081111234532.GG7038@aerie.halcy0n.com> In-Reply-To: <20081111234532.GG7038@aerie.halcy0n.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 72b45c05-0478-4969-b99b-6902ae516bc0 X-Archives-Hash: 1d687f4130d7b0e25344d11e610923e5 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. > > 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. [snip] IMHO, the old gentoo-wiki (don't know if the new one will address it) does let you down when pages are out of date. The solution I like is the wikipedia idea: There is a tag for marking pages as outdated / inaccurate, and if a page has the outdated tag for too long it's removed / archived. Much like treecleaning! -- Iain Buchanan You know you're using the computer too much when: refer to traffic lights as routers. -- C J Pro