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From: Md.Abdul Aziz <[email protected]>
To: Josh Berkus <[email protected]>
Cc: 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: [pgsql-www] Developer's Wiki
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 22:46:28 +0530 (IST)
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On Sat, 16 Sep 2006, Josh Berkus wrote:
Hi,

> 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.
 	Then it will need not be a wiki, just make a website.


>
> 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.
>
>

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