* Re: [gentoo-dev] An official Gentoo wiki
@ 2008-11-12 0:05 99% ` Ferris McCormick
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From: Ferris McCormick @ 2008-11-12 0:05 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
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On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:45:32 -0500
Mark Loeser <halcy0n@gentoo.org> 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. 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.
>
> 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?
>
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. :)
> --
> Mark Loeser
> email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org
> email - mark AT halcy0n DOT com
> web - http://www.halcy0n.com
Regards,
Ferris
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Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <fmccor@gentoo.org>
Developer, Gentoo Linux (Sparc, Userrel, Trustees)
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