proposed spin-off of wiki team

[Jonathan Jesse]

On Thursday 23 March 2006 09:08, Matthew East wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 07:47 -0500, Jonathan Jesse wrote:
> > As stated in an earlier post to the list, I think it is time for the wiki
> > team to be some how spun off into its own group.  The wiki is not getting
> > the focus it needs and maybe it is time for a gruop of peple who head up
> > the wiki team to start having regular wiki meetings and move forward with
> > increasing activity there.
> >
> > It could perhas be a subpart of the doc group but it needs to be
> > advertised more, maybe having a ubuntu-wiki mailing group and have group
> > meetings in #ubuntu-meeting
>
> My initial reaction is that a separate mailing list is a bad idea, for
> the quite simple reason that the wiki has lots of great documentation on
> it, and it would be a bad idea if the people dealing with the non-wiki
> docs lost sight of that. For example, recently when Brian Shumate was
> posting those awesome guides on the wiki and announcing them on the
> mailing list, that material was great to know about so that it can be
> used and linked to from our docs.
>
> In the context of the initiatives to bring the wiki and other docs
> closer, I think separating the mailing lists would be a bad idea, and
> wouldn't have any significant advantages.
>
> I think the current balance is about right.
>
> Matt

Matt,

How would you then propose solving the fact that a lot of initiatives to work 
on the wiki start and then fail?  Maybe we need to have wiki only meetings?  
Is there someone "in charge" of the wiki team that could drive these 
initiatives?  Is there a list of initiatives?

Jonathan