[pmwiki-users] Simplifying my PmWiki involvement

Hans design5 at softflow.co.uk
Thu Apr 26 14:28:21 CDT 2007


Thursday, April 26, 2007, 1:33:08 PM, DaveG wrote:

> I'd be happy to maintain a few of the front-end ones, and some of the
> simpler back-ends -- if it's okay I'll add my name this evening (a few
> hours): [....]

Thanks Dave! much appreciated!

> Something I think this highlights is a reluctance for people to change
> other peoples work on a wiki. I've noticed this on wiki's I run as well.
> It seems particularly noticeable when someone has invested a lot of time
> on a topic/page. However, a move like this, where the author explicitly
> requests help (either on the page itself, or on the list) might be a
> start to generate a sub-community around a cookbook?

I think the cookbook system which names a maintainer for the recipe
page works quite well. I think it is good if there is some reluctance
to change things on the page, as long as we are not paranoid to step
on other people's toes, and still feel able to add or change things,
but also respect the maintainer's work on the page. I think the
cookbook pages are as a result fairly well organised, and not just a
chaotic jumble.

Also there is a difference of maintaining a recipe page and keeping
any script code updated, or developing it. Even though this is often
linked. But the page is far more for documentation, for answering
questions, for gathering requests. Code development could be done
by the maintainer, or someone else, or indeed a group.


  ~Hans




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