From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1O0I4l-0000Qx-NK for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 09 Apr 2010 17:33:03 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DEC35E0922; Fri, 9 Apr 2010 17:33:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.apserver.co.uk (server2.alteredperspective.co.uk [212.13.194.103]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A1ABE08B8 for ; Fri, 9 Apr 2010 17:32:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.apserver.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0783C16D5DD for ; Fri, 9 Apr 2010 18:32:53 +0100 (BST) Received: from mail.apserver.co.uk ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (server2.alteredperspective.co.uk [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id RAzZVa50G7ow for ; Fri, 9 Apr 2010 18:32:46 +0100 (BST) Received: from [192.168.1.11] (cpc2-ashf2-0-0-cust203.asfd.cable.ntl.com [81.109.96.204]) by mail.apserver.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D46A316D5DC for ; Fri, 9 Apr 2010 18:32:45 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <4BBF64BA.9070404@allenjb.me.uk> Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2010 18:32:42 +0100 From: AllenJB User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20091105 Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.23 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Gentoo Wiki Project References: <20100408135105.49ca2e21@gentoo.org> <20100408145604.647ce147@gentoo.org> <20100408165536.76cdfcc9@gentoo.org> <20100409072616.c8e29fbe.guy.fontaine@videotron.qc.ca> <4BBF5DB0.2040906@gmail.com> <20100409172456.GA13726@Caemlyn.Fullrate> In-Reply-To: <20100409172456.GA13726@Caemlyn.Fullrate> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: ba89469f-f3c5-4acc-9c9e-9030de033f8d X-Archives-Hash: 233a767c38f270c694daa2d3300dc4d8 On 09/04/10 18:24, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote: > Really? I understood it as the wiki being an all-purposes wiki, meaning users could (would and should) create articles on how to get some application running or how to get some setting working, and the developers will have their own "section", so to speak, where they can collaborate on various projects where a wiki would be an asset. > It seems to me from the discussion here on the list that it is to centralize documentation (- the official docs), so that gentoo can point to the wiki and say "If it's not in our docs, maybe it's in the wiki". > > I may have mistaken the actual purpose of the wiki, but then by all means, correct me :-) > It has no purpose. The "official" wiki currently has no rules and no mission statement. There's been no activity for 3 days. ...in which time the unofficial wiki got countless edits in many languages. And my server downloaded backups 3 times (because we have a public backup policy in place to ensure the content is never lost again - something some people seem to like ignoring (or are just ignorant of)). AllenJB