On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Steve Sanbeg<ssanbeg(a)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