[rvm-core] Wiki Editing Policy?

[Laurence Hellyer]

Hi,

Just an observation but... I wonder if the current restrictions of editing the JikesRVM wiki is perhaps too restrictive and discouraging possible contributions of useful nuggets of information by non core members?  Whilst I understand possible concerns about spam and the quality of contributions has any thought been given to allowing everyone to edit the wiki by default, perhaps only protecting certain key pages such as the front page etc.

A lot of knowledge is only documented in the mail archives, creating a special section on the wiki and encouraging users to contribute back knowledge might be a nice way to help build the JikesRVM community.

Anyway just a thought

Kind regards

Laurence

Laurence Hellyer
Research Student
Computing Laboratory
University of Kent

More info: http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/rpg/lh243/

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[David P Grove]

Laurence Hellyer <L.Hellyer@...> wrote on 09/03/2009 04:55:32 AM:
>
> Just an observation but... I wonder if the current restrictions of
> editing the JikesRVM wiki is perhaps too restrictive and
> discouraging possible contributions of useful nuggets of information
> by non core members?  Whilst I understand possible concerns about
> spam and the quality of contributions has any thought been given to
> allowing everyone to edit the wiki by default, perhaps only
> protecting certain key pages such as the front page etc.
>

My inclination would be to just grant anyone in the community who wants to be able to edit the wiki the rights to do so and just trust them to act responsibly.  

--dave
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[David P Grove]

Laurence Hellyer <L.Hellyer@...> wrote on 09/03/2009 05:55:32 AM:
>
> Just an observation but... I wonder if the current restrictions of
> editing the JikesRVM wiki is perhaps too restrictive and
> discouraging possible contributions of useful nuggets of information
> by non core members?  Whilst I understand possible concerns about
> spam and the quality of contributions has any thought been given to
> allowing everyone to edit the wiki by default, perhaps only
> protecting certain key pages such as the front page etc.
>
> A lot of knowledge is only documented in the mail archives, creating
> a special section on the wiki and encouraging users to contribute
> back knowledge might be a nice way to help build the JikesRVM community.
>

Sorry for the slow response.  I just realized that although we'd discussed this among the Steering Committee almost two weeks ago and quickly come to a unanimous decision to give any community member who asks the ability to edit the wiki, that none of us had actually remembered to respond to this email chain saying that.

--dave


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