>-----Original Message----- >From: Max Hetrick [mailto:[email protected]] >Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 3:55 PM >To: General list for user discussion, questions and support >Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] BPC-wiki on CentOS site that moved > >Sorin Srbu wrote: > >> Yeah, speaking of which, I had a look at the CentOS-wiki and it seems you >> have to apply for membership and whatnot to be able to add and maintain a >> wiki-page there. I don't know how the BPC-wiki is with regard to this, ie if >> it's simpler. For now the howto will remain at the previously mentioned url >> on my own server. > >The process for contributing to the CentOS wiki is difficult, along with >a community of admins that differ very much on what's considered >on-topic and off-topic to post. Not only that, you have to go through a >submission process for everything on a page-by-page basis. So, basically >if you wanted to post something, you have to ask permission to have a >page created and give you write access to that page. > >Once you contribute awhile, you're given some more rights, but you still >feel compelled to ask permission before you just start creating pages. >Given they have no set of standards for what they want authors and >contributors to follow, you get folks criticizing of what should or >should not be posted, leaving the author confused as to what he/she >should be doing. > >Maybe you'll have better luck than I did there, but this is exactly why >I left helping them out. Until they put some standards together for what >they feel is on-topic articles, and get all their team members on board, >to me it's not worth it. Many people have left the CentOS wiki project >over the last year.
Ah, yeah, spot on. My idea was to also add stuff, tips and tricks that maybe aren't quite obvious or fit in a straight-up howto, like the "Personal notes and gotcha's"-paragraph I just recently added to the howto. -- /Sorin
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