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.
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