[CentOS-docs] wiki and author/maintainer name
Karanbir Singh
mail-lists at karan.orgThu Oct 25 10:23:15 UTC 2007
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Akemi Yagi wrote: > Hi all, > > I think that every wiki page should have a name(s) of the > author/maintainer of that page like in: > > http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/JavaOnCentOS I strongly disagree. By adding the name of a person on there, you basically say that this page is $OnePersonsPage and other people should stay away. The whole idea of a wiki is to have edit access for as many people as possible. A link to the changelog should be plenty, if people want to work out where to send the changes if they dont have edit rights - there should be a policy and howto page for that in the wiki, perhaps link to that page from the bottom of each content page. > The name that appears at the bottom is not adequate because it could > be someone who has just corrected a typo. In fact, that entry can be > eliminated once the contact info has been given on the page. This is like going back a few steps from the idea of a wiki to the idea of html static pages. What problem are you actually trying to solve here ? > The whole purpose of this is of course to make it easier for people to > send in corrections / questions / tips / accolade etc etc. I see it go the other way, make it more strongly associated to one person, and thereby discourage edits by other people. -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq
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