Sec: Unclassified RE: Announcing Documentation Web Sites

[Corey Burger]

On 10/23/05, Matthew East <mdke at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-10-23 at 13:40 +0800, Jerome Gotangco wrote:
> > > Shall we move all of our documentation to that instead the current
> > > wiki? I think we should.
> >
> > I don't think we should. As much as possible wiki fragmentation
> > especially with ubuntu-specific doc is undesirable. Although if we
> > have our own wiki, we can have the flexibility of user-specific ACLs
> > and custom moin scripts.
>
> My vote on this is also "no way". The documentation on the wiki is for
> contribution by USERS, and hiving that off would be a total shame.
>
> However, this does not stop us making static versions of good wiki pages
> that have become stable over time.

Ugh, this has failed once and will fail again. Observe how Wikipedia
also fails to achieve this.

Moving to the help wiki would not to lock out users. My idea of moving
would not turn off editing, just allow us to say "Any page on this
wiki is a doc, not a spec/random dev note".

Corey