Re: gEDA-user: reasons for wikibook (was: plugins)

2011-09-13 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Geoff Swan wrote: +1 I think it unlikely that a gEDA wiki would be targeted. It is very likely to be targeted by semi clever spam bots. I administrate a couple of wikis. Plain, anonymous write accesss had to be disabled because they caught spam bots trying to distribute their spew after a few

Re: gEDA-user: reasons for wikibook (was: plugins)

2011-09-13 Thread Colin D Bennett
On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 21:24:57 +0200 Kai-Martin Knaak kn...@iqo.uni-hannover.de wrote: Geoff Swan wrote: +1 I think it unlikely that a gEDA wiki would be targeted. It is very likely to be targeted by semi clever spam bots. I administrate a couple of wikis. Plain, anonymous write accesss

gEDA-user: reasons for wikibook (was: plugins)

2011-09-12 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Vladimir Zhbanov wrote: On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 10:51:31PM +0200, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: I am close to start off a gEDA wikibook (http://en.wikibooks.org). Would you join the effort? How about updating the existing wiki documentation? Reasons to go for wikibooks: a) IMHO, it is good

Re: gEDA-user: reasons for wikibook (was: plugins)

2011-09-12 Thread DJ Delorie
a) IMHO, it is good practice to have a user manual completely separate from documentation of features, formats and APIs. While the latter has to be complete, comprehensive and super correct, the former should focus on ease of use. These are conflicting goals. Think automatic extraction

Re: gEDA-user: reasons for wikibook (was: plugins)

2011-09-12 Thread John Doty
On Sep 12, 2011, at 8:43 AM, DJ Delorie wrote: developers. They're your greatest source of information on how the tools work. At the reference manual level, perhaps (although when I documented the gnetlist scheme primitives I didn't get much developer help). But at the level of toolkit

Re: gEDA-user: reasons for wikibook (was: plugins)

2011-09-12 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 12.09.2011 um 16:43 schrieb DJ Delorie: 1. The easier it is to contribute, the more likely you are to be vandalized. Wikipedia has seen plenty of this problem. You need some method of authorizing trusted contributors and approving changes by others. As a heavy user of another

Re: gEDA-user: reasons for wikibook (was: plugins)

2011-09-12 Thread Geoff Swan
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Markus Hitter m...@jump-ing.de wrote: Am 12.09.2011 um 16:43 schrieb DJ Delorie: 1. The easier it is to contribute, the more likely you are to be   vandalized.  Wikipedia has seen plenty of this problem.  You need   some method of authorizing trusted