William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: > We have a serious issue to determine, and I've asked for a 48 hour cooldown > of wiki.apache.org/httpd/ to make a decision, and in the meantime asked that > the wiki become read-only for the conclusion of this decision. > > [XX] Our httpd wiki is open to external resources for httpd. > [ ] External httpd resources are prohibited. > > I mean this explicitly, obviously a link to MS/Sun/RedHat about their > specific platform would be genuinely useful and relevant.
I believe that Wikis must be able to link to external sites -- just like we do in the regular documentation. However, just like the the regular documentation, these links are generally restricted to Vendors, or other long standing and stable sites. (or... example.com) I believe we can look to wikipedia's linking policy as a good example of how to build a 'policy' that people can understand: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:External_links In this case: AdSense covered personal blogs especially from people who do not contribute in other mediums doesn't seem like a good place to be linking to. On the revision war: I don't like it; I do believe AskApache's link should be removed. I don't blame megaspaz, he was using the tools available, trying to communicate with AskApache that the link was unacceptable. The larger problem is that the AskApache person has never, AFAIK, made themselves known on the mailing list, or other mediums, making it impossible to communicate with them in other manners. On a policy: My opinion doesn't fit into a hard and fast rule, and rather relies upon discretion. -Paul
