Karanbir Singh wrote:
We also need to keep in mind through this conversation that the content
on the wiki is licensed under very liberal terms, lets not try and make
efforts to wall in edit rights or to contradict the license terms
themselves.
Attribution-Share-Alike pretty much says that
Marcus Moeller wrote:
In gerneral I take a look at the original author first, ask him to
accept my contribution or to allow me to edit and if he/she is
unavailable I am going to contact the one who last edited the page.
Works in most cases.
That sounds like a reasonable workflow, do we then
On 04/17/2009 02:05 PM, Mats Karlsson wrote:
So could we have two alternative text to cover the topic, who can edit
an article?
Currently maintained by: name
Can only be edited by maintainer.
Currently maintained by: CentOS-docs mailing list
Can be edited by anyone on the mailinglist.
-1
On 04/18/2009 05:24 AM, Akemi Yagi wrote:
Alan, Phil, John, don't listen to him. Stay at the keyboard 24x7 as
you always do. OK, you can forget about the mailing lists. BUT, you
should remain online and keep helping in the forums. Family or
friends? What's that? We devote our lives to
On 04/18/2009 11:58 AM, Marcus Moeller wrote:
As I have mentioned in another thread a while ago, it should be easy
to just add a 'Original Author' and 'Last Editor' notes so anyone who
is willed to contribute could just get in contact with him/her. You
can already read the page changelogs, of
JohnS wrote:
On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 17:11 -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote:
Shows up in the Info link on every page.
Problem is ... people without edit rights do not see the link.
Whos arm and leg can be twisted to correct that to show it?
Nobody's, I fear. There was a rather longish discussion
Mats Karlsson wrote:
So could we have two alternative text to cover the topic, who can edit
an article?
Currently maintained by: name
Can only be edited by maintainer.
Not really possible, as everyone in EditGroup is allowed to edit every
articel (and the plan is to open up the wiki so that
On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 11:37 +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote:
Mats Karlsson wrote:
So could we have two alternative text to cover the topic, who can edit
an article?
Currently maintained by: name
Can only be edited by maintainer.
Not really possible, as everyone in EditGroup is allowed
On Sat, 2009-04-18 at 12:58 +0200, Marcus Moeller wrote:
In my opinion a policy like this described somewhere is a mistake. I
prefer we have macro(s) for this. And if the macro is missing, the wiki
provides a default.
I differentiate between a policy that implies strict enforcement, and
Coming a little late to this discussion, take the example of the three
kernel related HowTos. Each article begins with a Currently
maintained by: AlanBartlett and AkemiYagi line.
Akemi I discussed this some time ago and decided to insert those
lines for two reasons:
(1) to give clear
Mats Karlsson wrote:
So could we have two alternative text to cover the topic, who can edit
an article?
Currently maintained by: name
Can only be edited by maintainer.
Currently maintained by: CentOS-docs mailing list
Can be edited by anyone on the mailinglist.
s/Can/Should/ at least as
On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 13:29 -0400, Phil Schaffner wrote:
Seems obvious to me after all this (and previous) discussion that some
more guidance on the Contribute page would help to clarify what is and
is not considered acceptable. Such a statement could be arrived at
either by consensus
JohnS wrote:
On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 13:29 -0400, Phil Schaffner wrote:
Seems obvious to me after all this (and previous) discussion that some
more guidance on the Contribute page would help to clarify what is and
is not considered acceptable. Such a statement could be arrived at
either
On 17/04/2009, Phil Schaffner philip.r.schaff...@nasa.gov wrote:
JohnS wrote:
On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 13:29 -0400, Phil Schaffner wrote:
Seems obvious to me after all this (and previous) discussion that some
more guidance on the Contribute page would help to clarify what is and
is
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 8:33 PM, R P Herrold herr...@centos.org wrote:
Alan, Phil, John
Please step away from the keyboard this weekend. Work on a
stamp collection. exercise, talk without a TV or computer on
with members of family or friends.
NO, no, no, Russ, please stop giving bad
A question on authorship and attribution policy for the Wiki. I
originally credited Alan Bartlett for the page content on
HowTos/ConfigureNewVideoCard, but he was not comfortable with that and
the reference got removed in the edit process. I generally do not
include my name on Wiki pages I
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 04:40:53PM -0400, Phil Schaffner wrote:
A question on authorship and attribution policy for the Wiki. I
originally credited Alan Bartlett for the page content on
HowTos/ConfigureNewVideoCard, but he was not comfortable with that and
the reference got removed in the
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Phil Schaffner p.r.schaff...@ieee.org wrote:
A question on authorship and attribution policy for the Wiki. I
originally credited Alan Bartlett for the page content on
HowTos/ConfigureNewVideoCard, but he was not comfortable with that and
the reference got
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 10:21:16PM +0100, Ned Slider wrote:
Personally, I would think it preferable that communications be openly
directed to this list rather than the original author/maintainer of a
given page, although I understand the instinct for a user to contact the
perceived
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Scott Robbins scot...@nyc.rr.com wrote:
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 10:21:16PM +0100, Ned Slider wrote:
So, what would you suggest then? A link at the beginning of the page,
please send comments, corrections to insert this, or possibly a
slightly different,
Is the ChangeLog, filtered for a specific page, available?
Provided notes were made regarding the specific edit (it looks good), that
would provide desired information, including original poster and description
of relevant changes.
The ChangeLog should be adequate from the point of view of the
On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Scott Robbins wrote:
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 10:21:16PM +0100, Ned Slider wrote:
Personally, I would think it preferable that communications be openly
directed to this list rather than the original author/maintainer of a
given page, although I understand the instinct for
On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 17:11 -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote:
...
Problem is ... people without edit rights do not see the link.
OOPS - Forgot that.
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On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Phil Schaffner p.r.schaff...@ieee.org wrote:
Agree that other authors should be able to contribute, particularly if
the page is unmaintained. That raises another point of Wiki etiquette
that might be addressed in the Guidelines - what is the proper procedure
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