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

[Jonathan Aquilina]

I had raised this issue a while back about getting rid of the community
docs or something. I feel community docs should be a replication of the
official docs but where any amendments or fixes can take place.


On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Tom Davies <tomcecf at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 :)
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> 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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Jonathan Aquilina
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