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

[Tom Davies]

Hi :)
Sometimes that redundancy is helpful.  If you have a subject to find
out more about and google it (or duck-duck-go it) then several of
those things come together neatly and give better context than an
article/wiki-page that tries to reduce confusion by giving it from
just one angle.

If you need help on a subject that you don't understand then it can
help more to have all those different view-points.

I found Wolven, of Wolvix, (and Oithona) was about the only person i
could understand wrt partitioning and installing Gnu&Linux.  His
unique style made it so easy whereas everything else seemed either
waaaay beyond me or tooooo patronising.

So, redundancy is seldom a waste and can be a huge help.  Also it's
unlikely to be wasted because so many posts and pages remain
accessible on the internet for soo long.
Regards from
Tom :)







On 3 December 2013 14:19, Gunnar Hjalmarsson <gunnarhj at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On 2013-12-01 16:44, Svetlana Belkin wrote:
>> It might just be me and not understanding why we have redundancy or
>> even not having a Community Wiki.  I just feel like it *IS NOT* like
>> the genetic code where you can have redundancy and it's useful.
>
> Whatever we think of it, users' efforts to help result in a lot of
> redundancy. Users help other users by answering questions in Ask Ubuntu
> and other forums. Some make use of blogs, and a few contribute to the
> Community Wiki. This is not a problem per se. On the contrary, it's the
> heart and soul of an OS with a lot of community involvement.
>
> It's true that there is a lot of outdated and/or bad advice out there,
> but there isn't much we as a team can do about it. We don't control the
> Internet.
>
> To me, the Community Wiki is merely one of all the resources where you
> can look for answers. It's special in the sense that the ubuntu.com
> domain name implicitly indicates higher quality. So it's good if we
> monitor and tag it, as several have mentioned in this thread, and that's
> especially important for those pages to which we link from the official
> docs. But would it make sense to close the Community Wiki, or some of
> the pages, just for the sake of it? No, it would not.
>
> The most important thing we as a team can do for the users is to make
> *the official docs* as correct and relevant as possible. The higher
> relevance, the more often you'll see people linking to it from various
> forums and blogs.
>
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