Akemi Yagi wrote:
Hi all,
I think that every wiki page should have a name(s) of the
author/maintainer of that page like in:
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/JavaOnCentOS
I strongly disagree. By adding the name of a person on there, you basically say
that this page is $OnePersonsPage and other people should stay away. The whole
idea of a wiki is to have edit access for as many people as possible.
A link to the changelog should be plenty, if people want to work out where to
send the changes if they dont have edit rights - there should be a policy and
howto page for that in the wiki, perhaps link to that page from the bottom of
each content page.
The name that appears at the bottom is not adequate because it could
be someone who has just corrected a typo. In fact, that entry can be
eliminated once the contact info has been given on the page.
This is like going back a few steps from the idea of a wiki to the idea of html
static pages. What problem are you actually trying to solve here ?
The whole purpose of this is of course to make it easier for people to
send in corrections / questions / tips / accolade etc etc.
I see it go the other way, make it more strongly associated to one person, and
thereby discourage edits by other people.
--
Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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