From: | "Md(dot)Abdul Aziz" <aziz(at)students(dot)iiit(dot)net> |
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To: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
Cc: | Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>, Dave Page <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: [pgsql-www] Developer's Wiki |
Date: | 2006-09-17 17:16:28 |
Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.61.0609172245360.5010@students.iiit.ac.in |
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On Sat, 16 Sep 2006, Josh Berkus wrote:
Hi,
> Greg,
>
>> I think the lessons of wikipedia is precisely that you *don't* want to add
>> such barriers. You want to let people add stuff pretty much freely. That
>> encourages people to get involved and put up information.
>
> The other lesson of Wikipedia is that maintaining wiki quality for a generally
> editable wiki requires a full-time dedicated staff. We don't even have any
> volunteers who have 4 hours/week to commit to cleaning up the wiki, unless
> you're volunteering.
Then it will need not be a wiki, just make a website.
>
> This is *particularly* true of the TODO stuff. We simply don't want Joe User
> adding their personal wishlist to the TODOs, and that's exactly what will
> happen if the TODO list is world-writable. TODOs should be items which have
> been hashed out here on the Hackers list, and the wiki page should list the
> specification which is the general consensus.
>
> If we had a "user documentation wiki", then *that* should be world-editable,
> but again that would require community volunteers to dedicate to cleaning it
> up. The developer wiki is by and for actual contributors.
>
>
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