On 03/03/2012 01:55, Jesse Phillips wrote:
On Friday, 2 March 2012 at 14:49:54 UTC, Robert Rouse wrote:
I'm relatively new to D, so I'm looking at everything I can. The D
wiki linked from the D site has so much outdated information and
entries that are more talk pages than actual entries (e.g.
http://prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?ComingFrom/Ruby )
If that wiki is not the best place to go for information (besides the
newsgroup), what is?
If you do not find the page helpful, please delete it/remove the
reference to it. The wiki works best when someone is willing to
make it better, and removing useless information is part of that.
That's a tricky thing to do. While it's easy to add new information to
the wiki, removing it is not as clear-cut: it requires someone to be
able to determine that information is outdated/incorrect/obsolete, and
to be able to correct it (in case the correction is not as simple as
deleting, but rather fixing some entry). And even so, unless the error
in the information is glaring, people might be reticent to do it, as it
implies "interfering" with someone else's work, and one does not always
know if that is appropriate.
I also generally agree it would be better to have some sort of process
set up around the wiki. Curate it in some way, or have a more managed,
distilled version, that would be of use for newcomers. Indeed, it seems
to me there is an important separation between some pages, those that
are more discussion like, or more relevant only to experienced/involved
members of the D community, and other pages which are quite important
for beginners (like the Editors page and others linked from dlang.org),
to offer a Getting-Started kind of information.
--
Bruno Medeiros - Software Engineer
