[wp-docs] Managing the Wiki

[Carthik Sharma]

A documentation resource should be managed, yes.

We may have to think of it this way :
What is neccesary ?
build whatever is extremely neccesary first. Have a well designed
index page first, and then start building from there. So that we can
someday say we have a reasonably complete set of documentation. Later,
when the basic stuff is in, we can add more, or edit as we want to.

There should be a group of people, who have already contributed to the
wiki, who can call the shots, taking decisions in a democratic and
reasonable way if possible. At least a few of these people should
concentrate on the docs, and not much else, since then, for them, docs
will be top priority work. Without assigning docs a high enough
priority, not much witll get done with regards to docs.

Carthik.

On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 07:02:21 -0700, Craig Hartel <milquetoast at telus.net> wrote:
> Scott Merrill wrote:
> > A standard won't be adhered to.  A standard must be enforced.  The Codex
> > will need a group of people who edit pages to whatever standard we have.
> 
> I agree 100%. That is what I meant to say! :)
> 
> 
> > It's hard to define a set-in-stone format when we don't yet know which
> > formats work well.  The chaos of the previous wiki taught us a lot of what
> > NOT to do, but not a lot about what to do.
> 
> Right you are. At the minimum, if, in hindsight, format 'A' sucks, at least we
> can likely have you hackers write a tool to move us to format 'B' because at
> least we know where we are starting from. Not an ideal situation, I know, but we
> have to decided on a format sooner, rather than later, otherwise we run into
> problems.
> 
> I suspect that the Wiki really needs a "dev team" dedicated to it not unlike the
> software itself. This team needs to work with the software team, but should
> likely be independent of it.
> 
> Craig.
> 
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