Desktop choice/performance

[David Groos]

I agree.  There needs to be some way to get workload off the key
contributors--the developers and those who really have a huge knowledge
base--and move it on to those of use who know something, maybe a lot of
somethings, but do not have the deep/reliable knowledge base required to
create/improve software or to help others troubleshoot.  I like your
'answer for a wiki' initiative. Let's give it a try.  (I hadn't yet read
your whole page at the moment of making my last response and thus didn't
know the reference for your initiative.)

Personally, I make tons of notes on what I do and if they seem reliable or
applicable to others besides myself I post them on my tech/teaching
research blog, but often I don't think they are reliable enough.  So, I'm
going to make the page you (Alkis) created the link for and let's see how
that goes.  I'll try to make it clear, not TOO wordy and you (Alkis) please
help by checking for reliability.  Gonna get started now.  Again, thanks
for all your effort/help.

David G

On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Matthew Faulconer <
matthew.faulconer at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think the "answer for a wiki page" concept is brilliant. Newbies like
> myself should be encourage to both check the wiki for the answer and
> promise to write up their answer on the wiki properly if someone can help
> them through it. And, Alkis, I like your point that there is substantial
> incentive to let people know when they are asking the question that they
> promise to write the wiki after because it then means that an expert is
> more willing to take their time providing a quick answer if they know the
> other person is going to "pay that back" by improving the community
> documentation on this very point.
>
> It would be a totally on your honor type system, but I think most people
> are honorable enough to make an effort to try to write up what they learned
> after they had made the promise to do so.
>
> On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Alkis Georgopoulos <alkisg at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Στις 28/09/2012 07:35 μμ, ο/η David Groos έγραψε:
>> > For, "answer to wiki initiative, I think you mean having "page stewards"
>> > ...
>>
>>
>> Hi David,
>>
>> no, what I meant is that sometimes we end up writing the same answers in
>> mailing lists or forums over and over again, and I think that nice wiki
>> pages should be written about them instead.
>> It's not related to what I wrote to the bottom of the ltsp-pnp page.
>>
>> E.g. I bet the "how to set up a static IP" question has been answered
>> hundreds of times (I'm not talking just about this mailing list), and
>> people answered quickly instead of writing a proper wiki page and link
>> to it.
>>
>> We all know that software developers or experts give more time
>> developing and much less time documenting. So my idea was that when a
>> person asks something that deserves a wiki page, someone of the experts
>> may give a correct but quick answer, and the person receiving it would
>> then write a wiki page about it, with screenshots if needed etc etc.
>>
>> That would motivate developers to answer more frequently, because then a
>> more complete version of their answer would be written in a wiki page,
>> and they could link to it when the same question arises in the future,
>> and it would also benefit users because they'd get technically correct
>> answers instead of workarounds usually found in forums while googling.
>>
>> It's not related to who maintains the page; it's just about writing
>> them; we have a big lack of wiki editors.
>>
>> I don't know if that approach would work, but we can try it.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Alkis
>>
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