On Friday 13 July 2007, Donald Bruce Stewart wrote: > claus.reinke: > > personally, i tend to be more willing to answer questions > > on the list than to fiddle with wiki markup and conventions, > > but there is no reason why people who are happier with > > wiki editing cannot extract content from list answers to the > > wiki, especially if its a faq answer rather than a research > > result. > > I've got a few tools that make wiki editing easier (shortcuts to open up > a new wiki page for editing in vim, syntax highlighting, console > access). These make wiki editing roughly as cheap as composing an email. > > I tried an experiment this week of just taking someone's post (Conor's > idiom brackets), and putting directly on the wiki first, then letting the > author know that's happened. > > How do people feel about allowing posts in -cafe to be placed on the > wiki, without extensive prior negotiation?
Well, anything /I/ write is OK. . . > What copyright do -cafe@ > posts have? Legally? I'd imagine it's pretty restrictive; morally, I think we should encourage people to wave whatever rights they have (like with the wiki). > If there was a rough consensus that this is ok, we could probably get a > lot more material directly on the wiki, since I for one would act first, > putting some interesting Clause Reinke posts there semi-verbatim, rather > than pondering whether to write an email to the author to seek > permission, or cojole them into doing it. > > Should we feel free to put mailing list material onto the wiki? We should. We may not, yet, but that should change. Jonathan Cast http://sourceforge.net/projects/fid-core http://sourceforge.net/projects/fid-emacs _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe