[Bf-docboard] Wiki Lock-down?

[Kesten Broughton]

Hey luca,

I think the new workflow looks great.  My only suggestion is that we get a
meeting time for IRC asap.  It is so disappointing for a new to install an
IRC client, get all set up and find the channel dead silent.  I still find
the best time is sunday morning about 9 am GMT while the weekly scrum at
#blendercoders is still going on.

It would also be helpful to have a top 5 wiki 2.6 pages list so newbies can
see what good pages should look like.

kesten

On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 5:48 AM, mindrones <mindrones at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 14 January 2012 21:10, Ryan King <rking at panoptic.com> wrote:
> > I would like to understand why the documentation Wiki has the notice
> saying
> > not to edit it. The spirit of Wikis is that they be open, and you trust
> the
> > community will produce something good.
>
> well that might be true for an encyclopedia like Wikipedia, but
> unfortunately it doesn't work well for structured content as a
> software manual as big as blender.
>
> As a matter of fact, after 2 years that the 2.5/Manual has been left
> open to editing, we had a *really* messed up manual, see
> http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Meta:Wiki_Tasks/Review_2.6_Manual
> Lots of pages are just copies of the 2.4 manual, or are empty, or need
> work.
> It took 2 months to review the 2.5 manual and to do that table (thanks
> to Valter Battioli).
>
> After that, 3 admins (namely Bastien, Francesco and me) agreed it
> simply doesn't work without peer reviewing and hence we've decided to
> "soft-lock" the wiki and ask people to be reviewed.
>
>
> > Also, how long is the planned period for this policy?
>
> The banner will be different, and maybe less prominent but people will
> still have to get their content reviewed.
>
>
> > Also, what can I do to help reduce the amount of time the policy will be
> in
> > effect?
>
> As Kesten has pointed out, see
>
> http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Meta:Guides/Writer_Guide#Official_Manual_Review_Workflow
>
> Just pick up a page that needs work in
> http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Meta:Wiki_Tasks/Review_2.6_Manual
> and propose an alternative in your user space, and you'll get a review
> as soon as possible.
>
> Basically after some *good* work on the manual, when we know we can
> trust you, you can get a "reviewer" status, which means you'll be free
> to edit the wiki (after discussion and planning if you want to do big
> changes) but we also ask you to review other people stuff.
>
>
> On 15 January 2012 09:32, Francesco Siddi <francesco.siddi at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > You can join the discussion on #mediawiki on IRC. Please be patient if
> you
> > get no answer right away, as the channel is not very populated.
>
> A small typo, it's #blenderwiki not #mediawiki :)
>
>
> ----
>
> I was waiting for some replies to my mail about the new workflow but
> it seems no one complained so far, hence end of the month we'll make a
> public call for writers/reviewers, so that this stuff will be a bit
> more "official".
>
> Regards,
> Luca
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