On Tuesday, September 15, 2015 at 12:17:42 PM UTC+12, RichardWilliamSmith wrote: > > Hi Hegart, > > Your edit is in the repo: > https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/tree/master/editions/tw5.com - > it should first appear in the prerelease at > http://tiddlywiki.com/prerelease/ when that gets re-built and then will > become part of the official release next time jeremy releases a version. > > Regards, > Richard >
Hi Richard, Thanks for explaining that. Gosh, how inefficient! I'm sure there's huge benefit to the development team in doing it that way, but from the perspective of an end user it doesn't seem like a good way of organising community-contributed documentation. I guess it does allow the developers to have a governance role over the documentation for their product, ensuring that nothing slips in that is inaccurate (or worse), but there is overwhelming support these days for crowd-sourcing, and relying on the community to regulate itself, rather than a strict, permission-based procedure like this. Also, allowing the community to regulate itself tends to enhance the end-user's feeling of personal ownership, responsibility for, and pride in the project. Sure, any member of the TW community can no doubt go ahead and create their own community-contributed documentation. With the open-source licensing agreements in place, they can probably seed their own documentation project from the official documentation source initially, too. This, however, would lead to the situation (and probably has already) addressed in this discussion on the TiddlyWikiDev forums <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/tiddlywikidev/TF6UyFR-xVA>. The only solution I can see is, roll on the Tiddlyverse/federation, so that TW wikis, including the TiddlyWiki project documentation itself, can be contributed to and updated in real time. After all, that is the very definition of a wiki. “The term 'wiki' comes from the Hawaiian phrase, 'wiki wiki,' which means > 'super fast.'” - Dictionary.com > <http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/wiki> > Would you call the procedure that you've described above, of waiting for a whole new version to come out, as being "super fast"? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/673c3528-72a0-4056-9406-eb5a64ef8c8e%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
