On 28 April 2010 11:05, John Smith <deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 28 April 2010 19:26, Elizabeth Dodd <ed...@billiau.net> wrote: > >> > I think that we need to put our stuff on our own wiki. > >> > >> I don't see how you reached that conclusion. > >> > > Because this is a public list and what I would have written in > explanation is > > either rude or possibly defamatory. > > I read the rss feed from the wiki changes and I have watched recent > events. > > Nothing more will I say. > > While I'm privy to some of Liz's grievances, the bigger problem is > Aussie specific information being drowned out with all the other > information. Unless you knew where to find information about Aussie > mapping parties, you won't easily find it. > > The same goes for other Aussie specific information, it takes time and > effort to drill through links to find things, only to find out someone > has merged in a bunch of information from other unrelated countries so > on and so forth. > > Hello, just to add my 2 cents on the topic, I don't think it is an Australian related problem in itself. I would say that the problem is exacerbated by the fact that you share the same language as other countries. It is common to see some people to try to update the pages according to what is present internationally. I believe that a separate wiki can be useful at cases, if not only for the case that it can be potentially be easier to search and to work from it. Several other communities are thinking about the same thing in order to have something not as intimidating in the end. I do believe though that at least people try to keep a minimum of Australian specific page on the main wiki and try to get everything synchronised in the end. I personally don't use the wiki so I am not going to make much comments about what is going on, but I can see why it would be very annoying to someone, especially while they are some very country specific elements sometimes, and that by definition tags are not absolute but relative to the country where you live. Emilie Laffray
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