Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 22:46:28 +0530 (IST)
From: "Md.Abdul Aziz" <aziz@students.iiit.net>
To: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
cc: Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>, pgsql-www@postgresql.org,
	Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>,
	Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>, Dave Page <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk>,
	"pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] Developer's Wiki
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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.
>
>