Re: gEDA-user: gEDA Wikibook ?

[Stefan Salewski <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2010-12-24 at 16:20 +0100, kai-martin knaak wrote:

> 
> I have to agree with timecop on this issue: The problem that 
> needs to be solved, is not connected to the file format. It
> about finding authors. This is the big benefit of the wikibook
> concept. The entry barrier is as low as it can possibly get.
> Contribution is allowed to literally everyone. Click on the
> edit button and go ahead. Not even login with a fake name 
> necessary. Wikimedia provides an environment where this 
> approach works.
> 
> ---<)kaimartin(>--

Not always a "low entry barrier" is a real benefit.

In the technical world, there are good reasons for the use of uncommon
screws, so that fools can not open dangerous devices.

In the Internet world: Nearly all people now have access to information,
this is great. But so many seems to think that they have to add silly
content everywhere -- newsgroups, Internet platforms, blogs, facebook,
all filled with silly stupid stuff, the same questions and comments
again and again, more than one typo in each line, written without any
grammar from people without real names. I really try to get not in close
contact with all that dirt, but sometimes you have a problem which
wikipedia can not explain, you have to do a google search and gets all
that dirt before useful content.

Often I have seen people new to a project, they were exited and started
a tutorial about that... Some weeks later they discovered how much work
it is, they stop working on it, but often the pages with headlines but
no contents remain for years in the net.

But my conclusion is not, that a fully open wiki is a bad idea for gEDA
-- I am not sure.




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