Changes to wiki page Bugs/Importance

Elfy ub.untu at btinternet.com
Fri Dec 6 20:37:08 UTC 2013


On 06/12/13 20:18, Nicholas Skaggs wrote:
> On 12/06/2013 02:05 PM, Alberto Salvia Novella wrote:
>> Why I *changed pages* without asking
>> - Because I guess letting people make changes and discussing only 
>> those on which we don't agree makes *further progress*, further than 
>> speaking everything before hand. And if there's no consensus letting 
>> other's opinion to prevail.
> Alberto I applaud your willingness to make changes and be proactive. 
> That said, we need to discuss things first.
>
>> - How much *time* do you thing a message like this will someone take 
>> to write? And to answer? How do you see this for *every choose* (or 
>> not choose)?
> Making changes prompts discussion, and as you noted, if you want to 
> make big changes you don't want to discuss them all before making 
> them. The answer to this is to copy the wiki pages in question and 
> make your changes there so others can see. For example, I can clone 
> the entire QATeam wiki to a new page under my name, ala
>
> wiki.ubuntu.com/balloons/QATeam
>
> and make drastic changes there. Then ask others for feedback. Does 
> this make sense? Look at the
>
> Again, I'm always glad to see people striving to keep the wiki 
> relevant and up to date. So I applaud your work. I think it just 
> happened in the wrong place. Can you copy everything over to a new 
> place under your name and revert the changes you made then on the 
> primary pages? We can discuss and tweak things on the copies, and once 
> we're ready, replace the main pages again.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Nicholas
>
>
>

Other than to say, that having discussions about this sort of thing 
amongst those affected sums up the communal nature of wiki,  I'll say no 
more - this represents my view nicely.//
/
/Elfy

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