Ubuntu wiki, admin assistance required

Matthew East mdke at ubuntu.com
Sat Sep 1 09:21:01 UTC 2007


Hi there Darkwolf (sorry, I don't know your real name)

I'm a member of the Ubuntu Documentation Team and Ubuntu Community Council.

James Taji has brought to the attention of the Ubuntu documentation
team a discussion which you have had with him in relation to the
AmateurRadio pages on the wiki which he has moved to the documentation
wiki.

I'd like to help clarify. The Ubuntu community has two principal
wikis; the first is wiki.ubuntu.com, which is used for team building,
general Ubuntu development and discussion of new features in Ubuntu.
The other is help.ubuntu.com/community, which is used for user
documentation.

All user documentation should be on the latter, because it's easier
for users to find information if it's contained in one wiki. You might
find some more relevant explanation on this page if you're interested:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BetterWikiDocs

Since the pages you've created appear to be user documentation, that's
the reason that James moved them. Wikis are community developed
websites and as a result when you post material there, it's quite
normal that others will edit it and (if appropriate) maybe even move
it. We specifically encourage people to move pages from
wiki.ubuntu.com to help.ubuntu.com if they concern user documentation:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CategoryDocumentation

Documentation on the Ubuntu wiki is distributed freely under the
Creative Commons Share Alike Attribution licence -
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/License. As a result it is open for
everyone to edit it and change it in the way that they think best. We
believe that this reflects the openness of the Ubuntu community. You
may feel that you are not happy for your material to be distributed
freely in this way, in which case, feel free to remove your material
and publish it under copyright on a private website. However, I hope
that the above explanation will help you to understand that your
material is valued by the Ubuntu community and that the attempts to
move it have simply been good faith attempts to put it in the place
where it can be most useful.

Kind regards

-- 
Matthew East
http://www.mdke.org
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