On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 10:36:33PM +0100, Joost Verburg wrote:
> Andre Poenitz wrote:
>> I don't think I agree. The "community" is much better at keeping vital
>> contents up-to-date then the "core developers" are. Look at what we have
>> now: The "developer maintained official pages" that are mostly correct
>> when talking about last millenium's achievements, and a wiki page with
>> a decent level of on-going activity...
>
> The idea is to have CMS-style wiki pages with general info, downloads etc. 
> that can easily be modified by developers. Other pages can be edited by 
> everyone. Both types can use the same design and wiki technology.
>
> I think this is better than allowing everyone to edit the entire site, 
> because otherwise even the most important pages are subject to spam and 
> vadalism. Only for a limited number of pages editing needs to be 
> restricted. Currently, protection is already in place for important pages 
> on wiki.lyx.org.
>
> Note that many wiki pages are currently maintained by developers. The only 
> reason why they are on the wiki is because adding new pages and content to 
> www.lyx.org is much more difficult.

Put that way it sounds ok ;-)

Andre'

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