On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 7:47 AM, "Martin v. Löwis" <mar...@v.loewis.de> wrote: > Am 23.09.2010 16:33, schrieb Barry Warsaw: >> On Sep 23, 2010, at 10:16 AM, R. David Murray wrote: >> >>> I'd *much* rather edit rst files than futz with a web interface when >>> editing docs. The wiki also somehow feels "less official". >> >> There are dvcs-backed wikis, for example: >> >> https://launchpad.net/wikkid >> >> :) >> >> I don't agree that the wiki feels less official, or perhaps that it *should* >> feel any less official. It's an important source of Pythonic information, >> and >> to me it feels much more inclusive and open. > > This impression comes along with the authority of potential authors. > > If only the release manager can write a document, it is very official. > If any committer can write, but nobody else, it feels less officical. > If anybody could modify the document, it's even less official. > > Since anybody can write to the Python wiki, it feels not very official. > It's the same reason why people often trust Wikipedia less than a > printed encyclopedia.
I want to believe your theory (since I also have a feeling that some wiki pages feel less trustworthy than others) but my own use of Wikipedia makes me skeptical that this is all there is -- on many pages on important topics you can clearly tell that a lot of effort went into the article, and then I trust it more. On other places you can tell that almost nobody cared. But I never look at the names of the authors. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
