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[Raindrops From Sky]

Wow. That page practically asks everyone to hold their horses till SOMEONE
decides about the strategy.
This is bewildering, indeed! Nowhere else is this policy declared.

Here are some logical places where a volunteer starts:
1. http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:Manual
2. http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Main_Page
3. http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Meta:Guides/Writer_Guide

All of them ask the volunteers to go ahead and copy the 2.49 pages into 2.5
and edit them!
Naturally they will go ahead! (I was thinking of doing the same).

If that policy has changed recently, those pages should have been modified.
A flashing message should be put so that new volunteers would wait till a
decision comes out.
***
BTW that page is part of wiki, which can be edited by ANYONE.
(In fact, I just added my own potato there :) )
So is that the official policy of BF, or just a thought put forward by some
intellectuals?
How do we settle it?

In general, how are decisions taken at BF? What is the process?
The Blender site does not explain that at all.

Is there a project for freezing the wiki-related policy?
By what date will we know the outcome?

And is the Blender Foundation recruiting paid/unpaid volunteers of various
types for these tasks?
For example, coder-writers (to document APIs), illustrators (for drawings),
modelers/animators/artists (to prepare example models). etc?

I didn't see any call for volunteers at Blenderartists, BlenderNation, etc..
Maybe we need a SURGE in this area!

-Raindrops

On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 5:22 PM, mindrones <mindrones at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 09/14/2010 01:39 PM, Raindrops From Sky wrote:
>  > Is there a core group already thinking of starting on the wiki?
>
> yes there are plans about automating things later when the api will
> stabilize a bit.
>
> There has been discussion about this in March 2010.
> Have a read at
> http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Mindrones/Wiki/Proposals/2010
> (see the section "Wiki reference the 2.5 way, semi-automatic").
>
> Apart from having a big list in text format, there is more work to do,
> like doing appropriate templating in wiki to integrate things in a
> proper reference, to be used by wiki writers. The goal is to let people
> use templates to input shortcuts and screenshots instead of typing
> things manually (or copypasting from a txt) so that updating a single
> template changes the whole wiki according to the correct blender version.
>
> My personal plan is to discuss this at the conference before doing any
> heavy changes in wiki.
>
>
> Regards,
> Luca
>
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