[Bf-docboard] 4th November Meeting Summary

[Tom M]

> 3. Wiki writers
> The current way of granting writing rights won't work in longer term. It was
> decided that granting of writing rights should be changed towards merit
> based system similar to CVS commit rights in Blender source. This means that
> the new users provide "patches" as in additions to the wiki that will be
> reviewed by the wiki team.

This seems a really bad idea to me.  Have there been a lot of really
poor quality edits to warrant such an idea?

Personally I think that the wiki is far too restrictive currently
since we can't capture the full  power of casual edits (ie fixing
typos as you go).

Also the previous manual had a very tiny base of contributors since
the technical hurdles were high.  Adding technical and social hurdles
seems of very questionable merit unless there are strong and clearly
defined benefits.

Right now we still have far fewer contributors than are needed in my
opinion (especially if we take into account the needs of the non
english versions of the wiki) - thus until we have a critical mass of
contributors that the documentation comes close to keeping up with
development or unless there are major problems with bad edits, I don't
think that such a policy is reasonable or desirable.

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