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From: Josh Berkus <[email protected]>
To: Gregory Stark <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Martijn van Oosterhout <[email protected]>
Cc: Neil Conway <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Page <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Developer's Wiki
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 13:09:49 -0700
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Greg,

> I think the lessons of wikipedia is precisely that you *don't* want to add
> such barriers. You want to let people add stuff pretty much freely. That
> encourages people to get involved and put up information.

The other lesson of Wikipedia is that maintaining wiki quality for a generally 
editable wiki requires a full-time dedicated staff.   We don't even have any 
volunteers who have 4 hours/week to commit to cleaning up the wiki, unless 
you're volunteering.

This is *particularly* true of the TODO stuff.  We simply don't want Joe User 
adding their personal wishlist to the TODOs, and that's exactly what will 
happen if the TODO list is world-writable.  TODOs should be items which have 
been hashed out here on the Hackers list, and the wiki page should list the 
specification which is the general consensus.

If we had a "user documentation wiki", then *that* should be world-editable, 
but again that would require community volunteers to dedicate to cleaning it 
up.  The developer wiki is by and for actual contributors.

-- 
Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL @ Sun
San Francisco

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