Eli Zaretskii wrote:
Furthermore, even if the original person
who suggests some new documentation does not get it
quite right, others will come along and fix it.
This method cannot guarantee that this fixing improves quality. Do
any of the Emacs maintainers read the Wiki and actively participate in
its maintenance? If not, I seriously doubt the quality and
correctness of the information there.
I have been hesitating a couple of days to answer to this. However I
think that this touches important and interesting issues so I will try.
Every way of doing things has their own problems, but they also have
their own benefits. A major benefit for a wiki is that the threshold to
contribute is low. You may of course say that this is a drawback -- too.
That is natural I believe, the two sides of a coin.
Anyway a consequence of this is that the information on the wiki
sometimes tend to be forgotten and aged. If you agree to this then you
might think of how to solve this problem and still have the benefits of
the wiki. Perhaps a cooperation of some kind? But then a main problem is
the resources. Can cooperation be done in such a way that is does not
drain resources? Can it even contribute new resources?
I am not at all sure about the answer to these questions. But I believe
that only experience will tell which ideas actually can work.
