On Sun 10 November 2013 18:27:45 Nick wrote: > Quoth Norayr Chilingarian: > > What I would write in wiki is step by step instructions how to build the > > firmware, free loader, and flash it. > > I don't think it can confuse someone in some way. > > > > What about moderation, then, well, what you are saying is against > > collaborative work, like it is in Wikipedia. > > Everyone, by even not having Wikipedia account could go and write > > everything he wants. However, as we see, there are more sane people > > rather than idiots, and Wikipedia is mostly correct. > > I think Joerg was worried about you writing a page saying "this > firmware improves power consumption" before more testing and > consulting with more knowledgeable people. I'm sure we all agree > that a place to discuss ideas and possibilities (as wrong as they > may turn out to be) is valuable, but Joerg has no doubt been around > long enough to have to deal with the fallout of those discussions / > conjectures being left in places where people take theories that had > been disproved elsewhere as fact, and shared the disinformation > wider. Which ultimately can give a bad impression to a project, as > well as bad experience to others. > > Which is a long way of saying: the mailing list is the best place > for discussion, and the wiki should be reserved for things which we > are more sure about. So instructions on building and loading the > firmware would be fine for the wiki, but speculations about its > power saving (or sms receiving) improvements are best for the > mailing list. Which I know is what you suggested, but that wasn't > clear initially.
!00% ACK, sorry if that wasn't clear enough from what I wrote. Thanks for helping me out :-) /j -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments (alas the above page got scrapped due to resignation(!!), so here some supplementary links:) http://www.georgedillon.com/web/html_email_is_evil.shtml http://www.nonhtmlmail.org/campaign.html http://www.georgedillon.com/web/html_email_is_evil_still.shtml http://www.gerstbach.at/2004/ascii/ (German)
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