Hi Fredrik : Sorry , I thought only yourself had the means to comp- letely remove a Wiki page . My sincerest apologies .
You also make good points about the pro's & con's of simply copying info into the Wiki from a site that is in a constant state of being upgraded , without foll- owing the S/W's Doc upgrade timetable . Well , could we not extend the timeframe of the 'Recent Changes' tool ? Not fair in my opinion to have an author wondering who and what and why , without at least some small info about the date thier efforts were wiped out . Of course in theory , anyone can log in and delete the whole site at will , but still , it would be nice to see a few more details concerning particular page histories , I think . Best . Garry www.parkwild.com > Who are these "non-contributing administrators" you speak of? The page > wasn't removed by any administrator, contributing or otherwise. > > The wiki has mainly contained information about RS3D, not easily found > in the official manual. The wiki was never intended to be a > carbon-copy of the manual since that only raises unnecessary problems > of maintaining consistency. Besides, what would be the point of having > redundant information on the wiki? > > Now, to relate to the greeblez! page, the initial page was, in fact, > the user-manual for Real Greeblez!. This was ok since, at that time, > the script was shipped with no manual and there was no natural "home" > for such a manual. This has changed, Real Greeblez! has a web site of > it's own, this site is linked to from the image contest site and > wikipedia. The Real Greeblez! script now ships with a manual and a > tutorial that shows how to use the script. There is no need for > copying the manual to the wiki, in fact, due to consistency problems, > its presence on the wiki could, theoretically cause more damage than > assistance. This means that the wiki can go back to be about things > _not_ explicitly listed in the official manuals. > > If you want to make a tutorial about performing a specific task, that > maybe nobody even thought about using Real Greeblez! for, feel free to > make a new page for that. But I do not think that an outdated copy of > the manual is helpful at all. > > As a final note, if you had taken the time to look at the page history > you would have noticed that it was Zaug himself who removed the link > to the page. And even though anyone can add and remove things from a > wiki, I think that the author of the product has a little bit more > than others to say about pages concerning his/her product. > > Regards, > Fredrik Bergholtz > > On 07/09/06, studio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Oh my, Oww! That is a quite dated version; apparently composed prior to > > > the complete rewrite/redesign and several additional small changes. It > > > really should be removed if it is not to be updated. In my opinion that > > > would be rather redundant as Real GreebleZ! has had proper, up to date, > > > documentation since May; available at the source. > > > > http://rs3dwiki.the-final.info/index.php?title=Real_GreebleZ%21 > > > > I looked for my page (above) on the wiki some time ago with the > > intention of updating it . Couldn't find it , so I gave up . > > > > If the page is that offensive , it could have easily been up- > > dated by deleting the nasty redundant content and add a link > > to http://www.catmtn.com/realgreeblez "for-up-to-date-Doc's" . > > > > That's the whole idea behind the wiki impetus . Edit , add , > > delete page content , modify ... perfect ! (verb) . It was not > > designed to give non-contributing administrators an opportunity > > to decide what should be and what should not . > > > > Oh well , such is life , n'est pas ? > > > > > Zaug > > > > Garry > > > > > > > > -- > Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.10.4/401 - Release Date: 7/26/2006 > >
