No, I understood what he meant. I was expressing a sincere dislike for diluting the discussion here with Yet Another Place to check for things that interest me.
Doing the discussion using the discussion tools in Mediawiki is a significant step backward in function in that I have to use their editor and their encoding, and I can't take advantage of any of the editing and indexing tools I've developed over the years, The MW editor is really crude and not really very well adapted to keyboard- oriented users. I guess I'm just getting less tolerant of things that use my time unwisely. I'd like to contribute, but the tools are so far away from what I spend most of my day doing that there's a lot of impact to how effective I can be. I could write comments and stuff in text files and then upload it, but at that point I might as well just post it to this list. It's a useful project. I just don't think the discussion tools in the wiki are very good. - db On Sep 25, 2009, at 2:07 AM, "John Summerfield" <deb...@herakles.homelinux.org > wrote: > Mark Post wrote: >>>>> On 9/23/2009 at 1:36 AM, "Douglas M. Wooster" >>>>> <d...@isomedia.com> wrote: >> -snip- >>> I'm sure one could use a Wiki as a discussion >>> forum, but it really seems better suited to developing, storing, and >>> searching reference material. >> >> I'm not sure how this meme got started, but nobody is advocating >> moving general discussion from the mailing list to the Wiki. What >> I _did_ say/mean was that as the Wiki grows, I would like to see >> the discussion of what content goes where (organization/ >> structure), what other topics are needed, what existing topics >> need editing, etc., happen on the Talk pages of the Wiki itself, >> not here. Until the number of people actively contributing to the >> Wiki reaches whatever critical mass is necessary, most of that >> discussion is going to have to happen in this mailing list. That's >> a significant difference, obviously, and one that I believe >> respects the time of the people on the list that aren't going to be >> interested in such minutiae. >> >>> Being able to place documentation >>> where other people can find it, like you can do on a wiki, is great, >>> when you have something authoritative to say. >> >> Given the population of this mailing list, I can't think of any >> more authoritative source. Everyone from the people doing actual z/ >> VM and Linux development, to the distribution providers, to the >> "old hands" at z/VM and Linux, to the brand new person is >> represented here. >> > >> > > Seems db misinterpreted something Jack Woehr said, then some of the > others of us took it further off the rails. > > David, Jack was referring to the discussion of the wiki itself when he > was talking about discussion on the wiki. > > Mark, I think that if discussion of the wiki on the wiki could be > mirrored to this list, at least for a while, that might be of interest > to others and maybe inspire a few, "I can do that!" > > > -- > > Cheers > John > > -- spambait > 1aaaa...@coco.merseine.nu z1aaaa...@coco.merseine.nu > -- Advice > http://webfoot.com/advice/email.top.php > http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 > > You cannot reply off-list:-) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO > LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
