Current wiki access status

[Peter Matulis]

The wiki paradigm breaks down once its content reaches a certain size. This
threshold has been reached a long time ago. Symptoms: sub-standard quality
pages; unmaintained pages; the necessity for wiki admin patrols, and
finally the vandalism.

Is salvaging the wiki *really* worth the effort required I'm reading about
in all these email threads?

Should we not instead think of evolving? Our success appears to compel us
to do so.

On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 5:04 AM, Pasi Lallinaho <pasi at shimmerproject.org>
wrote:

> We will need much more than one moderator for the team.
>
> I'm also pretty sure your expectation about the efforts spammers are going
> to make is false. They will be trying to join the team and will be doing
> everything they can to get in. Except sustainable, "real" contributions.
>
> All in all, the moderation will not be any easier, but at least we have a
> clean state to begin with.
>
> Cheers,
> Pasi
>
>
> On 2016-06-10 10:30, Chris Perry wrote:
>
>> People have raised/recapped some interesting points about the wiki -
>> but my main concern is to allow access to it again. The proposed
>> method sounds ok to me. popey needs to create the team? We announce
>> the team's existence and how to join it? We need at least one
>> moderator to vet applicants? I'm imagining that it won't be worth a
>> spammer's effort to make even a moderately plausible application to
>> join, so anyone who makes a moderately plausible application can be
>> allowed to join?
>>
>>
>> On 9 June 2016 at 23:47, Elizabeth K. Joseph <lyz at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 10:35 AM, Gunnar Hjalmarsson <gunnarhj at ubuntu.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I can't help thinking of a consequence of this, which hasn't been
>>>> mentioned yet. The community help wiki is huge, and one well known
>>>> problem is that it contains a lot of outdated information.
>>>>
>>> ...
>>
>>> I believe in the tagging system. I think it's OK to keep old
>>> documentation around until someone comes along to update it as long as
>>> we mark it as such.
>>>
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