On Tue 21 Apr 2020 at 20:07:55 (+0100), Brian wrote: > On Tue 21 Apr 2020 at 11:18:14 +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 11:35:00PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > > I don't know what the writer of those two sentences meant by > > > structure, but I specifically mentioned the Discussion page > > > (≡ Wikipedia's Talk page) which I think is an important > > > factor in improving content. > > > > At some point a long time ago, the Debian Wiki administrators (at the > > time) decided to direct meta-discussions towards the debian-www@ mailing > > list, instead of Discussion pages. I think this was a mistake, and it's > > something I've been wanting to push back on for some time, but it hasn't > > raised up my TODO list far enough. > > I do not have a TODO list, but pushing all wiki issues onto debian-www > probably wasn't the best of ideas. It seems to me that discourse would > be a good place to put them. > > At the same time, what is the point of discusssion? A user thinks a > technical point on the wiki is wrong; they know it is wrong; they change > it. Where's the problem?
1. Going from thinking to knowing. Even assuming they're well-informed, it may be worth checking with other people running different systems about what's wrong, and what the new text should say. 2. Pages often need more than just piecemeal corrections: they may need someone with a sense of ownership to restructure them, or even to coordinate a rewrite when they lose focus. Cheers, David.
