On Sat, 16 Sep 2006, Josh Berkus wrote:
Hi,
> Greg,
>
>> I think the lessons of wikipedia is precisely that you *don't* want to add
>> such barriers. You want to let people add stuff pretty much freely. That
>> encourages people to get involved and put up information.
>
> The other lesson of Wikipedia is that maintaining wiki quality for a generally
> editable wiki requires a full-time dedicated staff. We don't even have any
> volunteers who have 4 hours/week to commit to cleaning up the wiki, unless
> you're volunteering. Then it will need not be a wiki, just make a website.
>
> This is *particularly* true of the TODO stuff. We simply don't want Joe User
> adding their personal wishlist to the TODOs, and that's exactly what will
> happen if the TODO list is world-writable. TODOs should be items which have
> been hashed out here on the Hackers list, and the wiki page should list the
> specification which is the general consensus.
>
> If we had a "user documentation wiki", then *that* should be world-editable,
> but again that would require community volunteers to dedicate to cleaning it
> up. The developer wiki is by and for actual contributors.
>
>
