A Though on Redundancy of Community Wiki and Other Forms of Support

[Tom Davies]

Hi :)
+1
It's easy to get caught up in dealing with just 1 page or a few but
going through a ton of pages and making sure the tags seem right might
well be more positive.

I like having an area that people can update without even belonging to
a team.  There have been a couple of pages where tidying it up myself
has helped me understand the topic much more.  With the pages about
customising a LiveCd its helped when other people have come in and
edited my edits.  It's turned an ambiguous phrasing into something
much more solid.  With one of the ssh pages i now only need that one
page and if i work through it just copy&pasting then i get the whole
job done on a new machine quite quickly.

So community documentation has it's place and it's not a functionality
that would be good for official docs.  Forum threads are practically
impossible to follow sometimes.  You work through the main
article/1st-post and then find a string of messages saying shouldn't
have done this-or-that.  Also just because people vote for a thing
doesn't mean it's completely perfect.  For example i still don't
believe that the most influential music of the 20th century were "The
Spice Girls"
Regards from
Tom :)







On 2 December 2013 02:03, Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph <lyz at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 2:17 PM, Svetlana Belkin <barsookmud at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> True, true.  Maybe a wiki clean up is not really needed, maybe just more
>> of an active tagging should happen.
>
> Yeah, I think our first step should be making sure that pages are
> tagged appropriately. Maybe we should schedule a tagging jam for the
> team some time in the next few weeks during which we hang out in
> #ubuntu-doc and comb through wiki pages?
>
> As for AskUbuntu vs. help wiki, people on AskUbuntu can only really
> write about what someone asks. So if they just got finished up
> installing an application and want to share the details of what they
> did, the help wiki is the optimal place for this. It's unfortunate
> that they may not come back in 2 years and update it, but we are
> volunteer-run here so we do the best we can :) At least tagging helps
> people know that it's out of date so they should consider accordingly,
> and gives contributors a mechanism for searching for pages that need
> updating and all they need to do is update rather than create a whole
> new page from scratch.
>
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