[Bf-docboard] Current state of wiki updating.

[Kesten Broughton]

One thing that would really help with relaxing the review process and avoid
things getting messed up would be a history
tab<https://share.coursera.org/wiki/index.php?title=ML:Neural_Networks:_Learning&action=history>.
Many wikis have this and it serves as a version control of sorts.  I
believe it is "built in" to the wiki framework and should just need
enabling.

This way, at times when our reviewer to contributor count is too low we
could allow contributions to be pushed live before review with a note that
"This page needs review" like wikipedia has.  If the new contribution is
really "messed up" then the change could be reverted (but not destroyed).

When our reviewer team is functioning, then we could tighten up the process
to 'push live".

I'm currently doing some review for Jim's work on BGE, but I haven't been
trained by one of the core members, so i'm not sure if i'm missing
anything.  We're also not clear on the procedure to push live once a page
has been reviewed.

This page should be used to track our work in progress.
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Meta:Wiki_Tasks/Review_2.6_Manual

My vote is for a wiki-team scrum on IRC asap where we can hash out a short
term plan for the next month or two that is satisfactory to all.   How
about wed night?

kesten


On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 6:11 AM, Brecht Van Lommel <
brechtvanlommel at pandora.be> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I agree that the review process is not working, at this point the
> community is just too small to have a process this formal. People
> can't take responsibility immediately, they start first making small
> changes, and later might get more involved and be ready to take on
> responsibility. But there's not much point in doing that before they
> have worked for a while to convince themselves and others that this is
> something they want to do.
>
> Not sure what the right answer is, but I think the reviewing process
> should be relaxed. At least small changes like documenting a new
> option and the type of cleanups mentioned at the top of manual pages
> should be allowed without review. Why not do that and have a few
> people monitor recent changes? I'd volunteer for that.
>
> http://wiki.blender.org/index.php?title=Special:RecentChangesLinked&limit=500&days=30&target=Doc%3A2.6%2FManual
>
> Brecht.
>
> On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 9:20 AM, mindrones <mindrones at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > at least until the end of September, I will really have no time to
> > follow wiki pages editing and/or reviewing.
> >
> > Opening up the wiki has been done already and the mess that came out
> > in a year took months to be fixed.
> > After long discussions we have preferred to push people to take
> > responsibility instead.
> >
> > We have decided to start this table
> > http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Meta:Wiki%20Team#Roles
> > to invite people to take responsibility for some particular chapter.
> > That table is still kind of empty though... If you are active on the
> > wiki and want to take responsibility for a certain area of the manual,
> > just show up there.
> >
> > --
> >
> > Let me apologies for the long silence, I'll try to be more active and
> > read these mail more often.
> > Also, not being able to talk on IRC nowadays is quite a big hassle,
> > sorry for that.
> >
> > Frankly, if I will realize that I'm being more of a burden than a
> > help, I'll "resign" from my role of wiki coordinator and will let the
> > witness to someone else. In my view Greylica is a good substitute for
> > example, him being quite enthusiastic and active since a long time :),
> > but that should be discussed by other admins and active writers.
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Luca
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