Re: Wiki clarification - Mailing list pgsql-www
From | Mike Ellsworth |
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Subject | Re: Wiki clarification |
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Msg-id | AANLkTinjUuMRNjH88c64VKw1mr7Lw7ctNLTaOrNLDjXm@mail.gmail.com Whole thread Raw |
In response to | Re: Wiki clarification (Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>) |
List | pgsql-www |
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > Mike Ellsworth wrote: >> >> I'd appreciate some clarification on usage of the Wiki. >> >> When it was first introduced, the usage guidelines were a bit vague - >> and as I recall a statement was made (+ -) >> by Josh Berkus that ~ as long as it had something to do with >> PostgreSQL, it would be ok. >> > > There are two sets of policies here. The one at > http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PostgreSQL_Wiki:About suggests the Wiki is > intended for "user-contributed PostgreSQL documentation", which your page > didn't quite seem to be. So by that one alone, it would be inappropriate. > The rest of the policies for the project are listed at > http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Policies > Now, there really should be a "Wiki approval policy" for commercial content > there. What Josh told you may in fact be the ultimate policy here, and > there is already some other material on the wiki that is in the same fuzzy > area your page appears to be. But the line here is not clearly documented > yet to contributors or to site moderators. > >> Perhaps my expectations are a bit high, but I would think that level >> would at least warrant the courtesy of an email before a wiki page was >> deleted and locked. >> > > Not really deleted--cleared and locked. Had it really been deleted I > wouldn't have been able to restore the page to operation, which I just did: > http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Younicycle is back as you left it before. > > Sorry about blocking your content for a bit here, but I didn't have any idea > who had put that info there. It was locked until we figured out who did, or > whoever it was identified themselves after seeing the page was unavailable. > In retrospect, I should have used the E-mail contact system on the wiki > itself to contact you, and left a more clear suggestion on the cleared page > itself as to what you should do. I'll make sure that's incorporated into > the recommend procedure for when we run into a page that may not follow > project policies next time. You are literally the first case like this > that's happened--something commercial appeared and it wasn't obvious who > posted it--so the right way to handle things hadn't been considered and > documented yet. > My apologies for the temporary outage here, and I would recommend you fill > out your user profile at > http://wiki.postgresql.org/index.php?title=User:Henryhemma&action=edit to > make it clear who you are and how you can be reached so we don't have any > confusion there in the future. > > As far as further working on that page, I would recommend waiting until you > get a clear ruling here on the appropriateness of your page for the Wiki > before spending any more time working on it. I doubt the page needs to get > deleted altogether such that you'll lose all of the time you put into it. > It may just need to be rewritten to be consistent with the goal of the > wiki--user-oriented documentation related to PostgreSQL. That's not really > my decision to make though, just giving my personal opinion. > > -- > Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant US greg@2ndQuadrant.com Baltimore, MD > PostgreSQL Training, Services, and 24x7 Support www.2ndQuadrant.us > > > Thanks. I enjoyed your book. -- Mike Ellsworth