On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Steve Sanbegssanbeg@ask.com wrote:
On Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:07:01 -0400, Chad wrote:
All,
I had this idea cross my mind earlier today, but I got so tied up in meetings that I couldn't sit down and write out a proper e-mail until this evening. I was curious as to whether we think FlaggedRevs might be of use to Mediawiki.org, and if so, how exactly would we use it?
One issue on Mediawiki.org is that the help namespace is in the public domain, intended to be mirrored for local use. But if someone copies it at the wrong time, they could end up pulling in all sorts of nonsense onto their local wiki; someone fixing it after the fact won't help them as much.
So there really should be some way to copy the reviewed version of that space, even if that's not the version that's shown by default, just to be assured that you'll get good content, since in the help namespace that's much more important that having things perfectly up to date.
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Exactly, which is my main point I'm trying to make here. We've got a situation right now where we've got documentation that we say is _the_ source for info about MediaWiki, and yet we cannot vouch for it.
I don't think our major issue is vandalism or people purposefully inserting false information, but more so users who don't really know exactly what they're changing, they just know what worked for them. I've got several docs I've looked at in the past several days that suffer from this: clueless people trying to be helpful.
Not that we should discourage helpful people, but helpful people don't always know what they're talking about; at least not well enough to allow them to set the documented standard :)
-Chad