Re: [arch-general] What is the current wiki-poliicy for re-writing contributions?

2016-03-24 Thread Dario Giovannetti
I'll try to integrate what Feng and Maxwell already explained about the official ArchWiki policies regarding these matters. > What is the current policy for having wiki-contributions re-written? The content added to the wiki is published under the GFDL [1], and any registered user can edit it as

Re: [arch-general] What is the current wiki-poliicy for re-writing contributions?

2016-03-24 Thread Jude DaShiell
the current wiki-poliicy for re-writing contributions? Em 23/03/2016 5:39, ProgAndy escreveu: Am 23.03.2016 um 15:16 schrieb chaos Feng: On Monday 21 March 2016 12:22:30 David C. Rankin wrote: Archdevs, What is the current policy for having wiki-contributions re-written? I have been a wiki

Re: [arch-general] What is the current wiki-poliicy for re-writing contributions?

2016-03-24 Thread sculy
Em 23/03/2016 5:39, ProgAndy escreveu: Am 23.03.2016 um 15:16 schrieb chaos Feng: On Monday 21 March 2016 12:22:30 David C. Rankin wrote: Archdevs, What is the current policy for having wiki-contributions re-written? I have been a wiki-contributor for years, I've more than 28 years

Re: [arch-general] What is the current wiki-poliicy for re-writing contributions?

2016-03-23 Thread ProgAndy
Am 23.03.2016 um 15:16 schrieb chaos Feng: On Monday 21 March 2016 12:22:30 David C. Rankin wrote: Archdevs, What is the current policy for having wiki-contributions re-written? I have been a wiki-contributor for years, I've more than 28 years Unix/Linux experience, I am an attorney, a

Re: [arch-general] What is the current wiki-poliicy for re-writing contributions?

2016-03-23 Thread chaos Feng
On Monday 21 March 2016 12:22:30 David C. Rankin wrote: > Archdevs, > > What is the current policy for having wiki-contributions re-written? I > have been a wiki-contributor for years, I've more than 28 years Unix/Linux > experience, I am an attorney, a registered professional engineer, and I >

Re: [arch-general] What is the current wiki-poliicy for re-writing contributions?

2016-03-22 Thread Maxwell Anselm
> > Under what criteria does this take place? It has gotten to the point > where you > just get tired of helping -- why bother? The main criterion is this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Help:Style#Hypertext_metaphor Specifically, "Before writing a specific procedure in an article or

Re: [arch-general] What is the current wiki-poliicy for re-writing contributions?

2016-03-22 Thread Kenneth Jensen
On Mar 22, 2016 3:26 AM, "Jayesh Badwaik" wrote: > > Initially, when the wiki was small, a page would have a small section, with > instructions to get a basic system running. Now, probably as the wiki has > grown more comprehensive, it is becoming more and more

Re: [arch-general] What is the current wiki-poliicy for re-writing contributions?

2016-03-22 Thread Frank Schaffhaeuser
--- On Tue, 22 Mar 2016 08:26:15 + Jayesh Badwaik archli...@jayeshbadwaik.in wrote On Tuesday, 22 March 2016 09:00:28 IST Jan Alexander Steffens wrote: I hardly look at the wiki anymore, but I remember getting the same impression—most recently I had to hunt through multiple pages

Re: [arch-general] What is the current wiki-poliicy for re-writing contributions?

2016-03-22 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
On Tuesday, 22 March 2016 09:00:28 IST Jan Alexander Steffens wrote: > I hardly look at the wiki anymore, but I remember getting the same > impression—most recently I had to hunt through multiple pages about > encryption to get even a basic setup going. > > This is a problem. Initially, when the

Re: [arch-general] What is the current wiki-poliicy for re-writing contributions?

2016-03-22 Thread Jan Alexander Steffens
On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 6:22 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: > When I first began using Arch in '09, the pages were written such that you > could fully-complete whatever task the page addressed without bouncing around > from page-to-page hunting for all the pieces of

Re: [arch-general] What is the current wiki-poliicy for re-writing contributions?

2016-03-21 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
On 21 March 2016 at 23:22, David C. Rankin wrote: > What is the current policy for having wiki-contributions re-written? I have > been a wiki-contributor for years, I've more than 28 years Unix/Linux > ... There is no policy per se that helps anyone here.

Re: [arch-general] What is the current wiki-poliicy for re-writing contributions?

2016-03-21 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 12:22:30PM -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: > What is the current policy for having wiki-contributions re-written? I have > been a wiki-contributor for years, I've more than 28 years Unix/Linux > experience, I am an attorney, a registered professional engineer, and I have >

[arch-general] What is the current wiki-poliicy for re-writing contributions?

2016-03-21 Thread David C. Rankin
Archdevs, What is the current policy for having wiki-contributions re-written? I have been a wiki-contributor for years, I've more than 28 years Unix/Linux experience, I am an attorney, a registered professional engineer, and I have spent years doing technical writing for NASA MOD and Space