Re: [gentoo-dev] An official Gentoo wiki

2008-12-10 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 16:52 Tue 11 Nov , Joe Peterson wrote: > As for Wikipedia, there is always the fear that the info will be > incorrect, but time has shown that wikis tend to be very accurate and > get corrected quickly when not. A page's likelihood of correctness is roughly inversely proportional to its po

Re: [gentoo-dev] An official Gentoo wiki

2008-12-10 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 10:44 Wed 12 Nov , Michael Hammer wrote: > * Mark Loeser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [081112 00:46]: > > What issues do you see with having a wiki? > > Pages of poor quality with wrong informations. The wiki already exists and is popular, so these already happen. Even if it's not "official" it

Re: [gentoo-dev] An official Gentoo wiki

2008-11-13 Thread Petteri Räty
Jan Kundrát wrote: > kashani wrote: >> How easy is it to checkout current GDP docs > > Append "?passthru=1" to the end of the URL. > >> and make changes to them? > > I take it you want to make a patch. In such case, edit the file and > submit the diff via Bugzilla. > > Cheers, > -jkt > Or

Re: [gentoo-dev] An official Gentoo wiki

2008-11-13 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:45:32 -0500 > Mark Loeser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What are others feelings on this? What issues do you see with having > > a wiki? Do you see anyway to resolve the issue you see with us > > having a wiki? > > What will policy on articles tha

Re: [gentoo-dev] An official Gentoo wiki

2008-11-12 Thread Roy Bamford
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2008.11.11 23:45, Mark Loeser wrote: > So, gentoo-wiki.com went down for a awhile and took something away > from > our users something that is useful. Its back now, but I think we > should > consider having our own official wiki that our users can

Re: [gentoo-dev] An official Gentoo wiki

2008-11-12 Thread Jan Kundrát
kashani wrote: How easy is it to checkout current GDP docs Append "?passthru=1" to the end of the URL. and make changes to them? I take it you want to make a patch. In such case, edit the file and submit the diff via Bugzilla. Cheers, -jkt -- cd /local/pub && more beer > /dev/mouth

Re: [gentoo-dev] An official Gentoo wiki

2008-11-12 Thread kashani
Jan Kundrát wrote: Michael Hammer wrote: The wiki can be a staging ground for user contributed documents, which can become part of official docs after a review and cleanup by developers. ...as long as they use a compatible license, is not the case right now (and never was, IIRC). That's t

Re: [gentoo-dev] An official Gentoo wiki

2008-11-12 Thread Joe Peterson
Josh Saddler wrote: > It takes time and effort to produce one of our polished, professional > documents. That's duplicating the time and effort that it takes to write > a decent wiki article -- pointless duplication. > > One of the things I'm hearing from just about every other user and > develope

Re: [gentoo-dev] An official Gentoo wiki

2008-11-12 Thread Josh Saddler
Gokdeniz Karadag wrote: > The wiki can be a staging ground for user contributed documents, which can > become part of official docs after a review and cleanup by developers. . . . no, I'd think not. It takes time and effort to produce one of our polished, professional documents. That's duplicatin

Re: [gentoo-dev] An official Gentoo wiki

2008-11-12 Thread Jan Kundrát
Michael Hammer wrote: The wiki can be a staging ground for user contributed documents, which can become part of official docs after a review and cleanup by developers. ...as long as they use a compatible license, is not the case right now (and never was, IIRC). That's the way I intended my

Re: [gentoo-dev] An official Gentoo wiki

2008-11-12 Thread Ben Sanchez
Are you considering to replace the mediawiki with a different wiki system such as moinmoin? On Wednesday 12 November 2008 7:49:58 am Michael Hammer wrote: > * Gokdeniz Karadag <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [081112 13:06]: > > Petteri Räty demis ki:: > > > Michael Hammer wrote: > > > We should develop some

Re: [gentoo-dev] An official Gentoo wiki

2008-11-12 Thread Michael Hammer
* Gokdeniz Karadag <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [081112 13:06]: > Petteri Räty demis ki:: > > Michael Hammer wrote: > > We should develop some kind of review process and at least the > > possiblity to lock and hide pages of poor quality. In the most cases > > the howtos are related to some herds. What if we

Re: [gentoo-dev] An official Gentoo wiki

2008-11-12 Thread Gokdeniz Karadag
Petteri Räty demis ki:: > Michael Hammer wrote: >> * Mark Loeser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [081112 00:46]: >>> What are others feelings on this? >> I like the idea! >> >>> What issues do you see with having a wiki? >> Pages of poor quality with wrong informations. >> >>> Do you see anyway to resol

Re: [gentoo-dev] An official Gentoo wiki

2008-11-12 Thread Petteri Räty
Michael Hammer wrote: > * Mark Loeser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [081112 00:46]: >> What are others feelings on this? > > I like the idea! > >> What issues do you see with having a wiki? > > Pages of poor quality with wrong informations. > >> Do you see anyway to resolve the issue you see with us

Re: [gentoo-dev] An official Gentoo wiki

2008-11-12 Thread Eray Aslan
On 12.11.2008 11:44, Michael Hammer wrote: > * Mark Loeser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [081112 00:46]: >> What are others feelings on this? > > I like the idea! > >> What issues do you see with having a wiki? > > Pages of poor quality with wrong informations. > >> Do you see anyway to resolve the

Re: [gentoo-dev] An official Gentoo wiki

2008-11-12 Thread Michael Hammer
* Mark Loeser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [081112 00:46]: > What are others feelings on this? I like the idea! > What issues do you see with having a wiki? Pages of poor quality with wrong informations. > Do you see anyway to resolve the issue you see with us having a > wiki? We should develop so

Re: [gentoo-dev] An official Gentoo wiki

2008-11-11 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 08:39:41PM -0600, Jeremy Olexa wrote: > I am throwing this out there, can we ask Mike Valstar for a dump of all his > stuff, slap it on gentoo hardware under a wiki.gentoo.org link? > > It could be a "community building" experience and offering the > stability of gentoo har

Re: [gentoo-dev] An official Gentoo wiki

2008-11-11 Thread Jeremy Olexa
Mark Loeser wrote: So, gentoo-wiki.com went down for a awhile and took something away from our users something that is useful. Its back now, but I think we should consider having our own official wiki that our users can contribute to. We already have something very similar to this on the forums,

Re: [gentoo-dev] An official Gentoo wiki

2008-11-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
Hi, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:45:32 -0500 Mark Loeser<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What are others feelings on this? What issues do you see with having a wiki? Do you see anyway to resolve the issue you see with us having a wiki? What will policy on articles that are horri

Re: [gentoo-dev] An official Gentoo wiki

2008-11-11 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:45:32 -0500 Mark Loeser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What are others feelings on this? What issues do you see with having > a wiki? Do you see anyway to resolve the issue you see with us > having a wiki? What will policy on articles that are horribly dangerous or outright

Re: [gentoo-dev] An official Gentoo wiki

2008-11-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
Mark Loeser wrote: So, gentoo-wiki.com went down for a awhile and took something away from our users something that is useful. Its back now, but I think we should consider having our own official wiki that our users can contribute to. We already have something very similar to this on the forums,

Re: [gentoo-dev] An official Gentoo wiki

2008-11-11 Thread Ferris McCormick
On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:45:32 -0500 Mark Loeser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, gentoo-wiki.com went down for a awhile and took something away from > our users something that is useful. Its back now, but I think we should > consider having our own official wiki that our users can contribute to. >

Re: [gentoo-dev] An official Gentoo wiki

2008-11-11 Thread Josh Saddler
Mark Loeser wrote: > So, gentoo-wiki.com went down for a awhile and took something away from > our users something that is useful. Its back now, but I think we should > consider having our own official wiki that our users can contribute to. > We already have something very similar to this on the f

Re: [gentoo-dev] An official Gentoo wiki

2008-11-11 Thread Joe Peterson
Mark Loeser wrote: > What are others feelings on this? What issues do you see with having a > wiki? Do you see anyway to resolve the issue you see with us having a > wiki? +1! I have set up several wikis for work projects and used many others to great benefit. Even those (on my work projects)