[Bf-docboard] an alternative to restricting access

[Ryan Dale]

I'm sorry I didn't make the meeting (I won't be able to make next 
Saturday's meeting either), but I read over the log.  I'd like to throw 
my two cents in as well.

> 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. To provide easier reviewing, it 
> was suggested that a tracker should be created for this. The tracker 
> could also contain work list. It could be used to assign work to the 
> writers and to coordinate efforts.

I agree with the previous few responses to the above quote: restricting 
access is detrimental to the wiki.  I propose 1) give free access to 
everyone, and 2) have a group of editors review the 'Recent Changes' to 
the wiki . . . the same group that would have been reviewing patches 
anyway.  If, on the odd chance, someone's contributions are harmful to 
the wiki, those editors should reserve the right to restrict access to 
that user.  And to actually do something about this rather than spout 
empty complaints :), I'll volunteer to be part of that editing group.

I wholeheartedly agree with the need to assign work, or have some sort 
of sign-up sheet.  Ideally, readers should be able to tag a page as 
'incomplete' and then that page automatically shows up on the To Do 
list.  That way, writers just check the To Do list, starting from the 
top, and slowly crank through it.

What about prioritizing that To Do list?  How about this: any wiki 
reader could check the To Do page, and give a To Do item a bump up in 
priority (I need info about Pivot Points, but it's near the end of the 
list! *bump*).  I'm not sure what kind of voting functionality the wiki 
has to implement this.  But if we had something along these lines, the 
user community would determine what is important to write, and we 
writers can better focus our efforts.

-Ryan