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<[email protected]>, Alex
Hempton-Smith <[email protected]> writes
I think accrediting peoples contributions to codex articles, and retain a
certain amount of the "I" as well as the "we" would perhaps encourage
more contributions.
If I go to any codex page now, I can't actually see who started it, who was
the last person to add to it, how many lines/words were contributed...
However, when it comes to code, we can see how many patches/commits
people have made, etc etc.
Actually you can see all that stuff in the Codex history...
That aside though, I believe that the Codex should be as it is - a
repository for instructional information: not a place where people add
their contributions purely as a way to gain popularity or link juice for
their own websites. Some "contributions" amount to little more than a
link, to be especially harsh.
I'm all for a drive to document, and would help as much as I can (though
I'm more of a maintainer than a core documenter unless it happens to be
an areas that I know something about.) but I wouldn't like to see a
free-for-all where the effort is in fact to get your[1] name attached to
as many docs as possible so that you[2] become more popular.
[1] Using your in the general sense here, not your specifically.
[2] And again.
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mrmist
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