Recent modifications on a wiki page

[Andrea Lazzarotto]

Hi,

2015-10-14 19:24 GMT+02:00 Tom Davies <tomcecf at gmail.com>:

> There may be sufficient cause to justify banning the person from doing
> edits.
>

Ok, maybe this is too extreme. :D I didn't write in the list to get a bad
punishment for a person, I am just trying to understand why the information
I added in the wiki has been wiped completely. TBH this was not a very good
first impression trying to add some material to the wiki.

2.  No one "owns" any page.  Some people have a vested interest in certain
> pages either through having worked hard on it themselves, or it being an
> expertise or area of interest.  That does NOT give them the right to trash
> other people's work on 'their' pages!
>

Ah nice, good to hear that.


> 3.  Reconstructing the missing edits.  I thought these could be re-done
> with the click of a button?
>

Yes, I could revert the material but then I am pretty sure the other
contributor would delete it again and maybe also flag me as a kind of
spammer. I have nothing to "earn" in insisting to publish my contribution
against his will, it was written just to help other people, not to upset a
jealous author.


> 4.  If something can be done but only with considerable effort and/or
> requiring quite a high level of skill then it might be worth making a
> sub-page about it.  It sounds like something "the average user" might find
> tooo complicated.
>

Regarding querying the website for the BIOS version, I believe it's quite
easy. But I agree about flashing the BIOS, I was planning to investigate
further about extracting the ROM from the executable, however I am a bit
busy in this period between organizing Linux Day 2015 in my city and
writing the software for my MSc thesis.

I am not sure if I will have time to finish the investigation soon, I was
also writing the information on the wiki so that somebody could start from
it to finish the missing step.


> The person who slashed your work to ribbons may have been trying to avoid
> getting too complicated for "the average user" and may feel "slighted" at
> your implication that they didn't know.
>

I understand this idea, however the information I added was currently
referring mainly on querying for the newest BIOS version available, not on
flashing it.


> I hope this can be resolved peaceably
>

That's why I wrote here.

2015-10-14 19:38 GMT+02:00 Alberto Salvia Novella <es20490446e at gmail.com>:
>
> You should contact the person who reverted the edition, and try to make
> decisions slowly in consensus and based in facts as far as possible.


I have already contacted this person but I didn't get any reply. I wrote
here because I was suggested to do it by pmatulis in the IRC channel.


> Then if there are some point where the consensus has not been possible,
> then expose it to this list and we all together will decide on it.
>

IMHO if a person ignores your email and drops your contribution, he is not
exactly keen to reach a consensus.

If you are too picky about others changing things, then there will be no
> improvement at all.
>

Yes, this would be a good message for a person who was too jealous to let
me improve the page. ;)

2015-10-14 19:45 GMT+02:00 Tom Davies <tomcecf at gmail.com>:

> The attacks against her
>

Well, maybe not real "attacks" but just some reaction I don't really
understand. Technically I am a male (Italian name), but nevermind. :)

Best regards

-- 
Andrea Lazzarotto
http://andrealazzarotto.com
http://lazza.dk
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