Karanbir Singh wrote: > 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. Actually ... I think I disagree with that. When an author commits something to the wiki, the author still maintains the copyright. As such, they are responsible (to some extent) for the content. In a shared environment, that is maintainable by others, BUT, I think giving acknowledgment to the original author is something that should be done. I don't think that putting something in the wiki makes it a free for all and just anyone should be able to update it. Especially for How-Tos and Article type content. Now, we do have a very restrictive edit policy at this point and we have had no problems that I know of to date ... but I think acknowledgment is a good thing. We are not going to get many "Real Authors" to post here if we have a policy where by everything is owned by the group and they get nothing in return. > > 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. Well as an example ... do we want someone who knows nothing about DRBD changing the detailed article written by Arrfab ... I don't think we want that at all. I would check with him before I changed anything on that article, and I think that should be standard policy. Now for some things, like the CentOS in the Media page, I agree that there is total sharing and that is good. I don't feel the same way for Articles that are technical in nature though. Thanks, Johnny Hughes -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 252 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-docs/attachments/20071025/28cffe5e/attachment-0004.sig>