So just to be crystal clear: you can not edit that page now but you used to be able to? I think that is a thing we can just fix.
I'd need to chat with people to really be like "Yes let's move to Github wiki" but I don't think it's a bad idea at all. There's some discussion about moving the wiki-work at IA over to a more Mediawiki format (for internal AND external stuff) but I don't know how far along a project that is. ________ Jessamyn librarian.net ::: jessamyn.com ::: jessamyn.info ::: box 345, randolph vt 05060 On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 12:04 AM, Tom Morris <tfmor...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 11:09 AM, Karen Coyle <kco...@kcoyle.net> wrote: >> >> On 11/29/15 1:47 PM, jessamyn c. west wrote: >> >>> >I'm not sure what the reason was for reversing course on allowing >>>> people to >>>> >help with the developer documentation maintenance, but, in my opinion, >>>> that >>>> >information should be on a wiki which is publicly editable. >>>> >>> Agreed. The change (or decision if that is what it was) was either >>> before my time or an error. >>> >> >> This might have happened as OL was ported to the IA backend. As I recall, >> all of the code changed, and in the re-writing of it all I'm not even sure >> where in github the code ended up. I don't recall any conscious decision; >> this could just have been a fall-out of that change (which, btw, Anand did >> alone and under a strong deadine, so this is the kind of detail that may >> not have been taken care of). > > > It looks like the permission change was made some time between the end of > August and now based on this history that I just stumbled across: > > https://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/api/recentchanges?m=history > > I'd be happy to help with the migration to the Github wiki as long as it's > not something that's going to get undone or subverted later. I've done > programmatic migrations of project wikis from Google Code to Github, but > for the small number of pages that we have, it'd probably be just as fast > to do it by hand. > > Tom > > _______________________________________________ > Ol-tech mailing list > ol-tech@archive.org > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/ol-tech@archive.org/ > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > ol-tech-unsubscr...@archive.org >
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