On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 03:03:37PM +0200, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > Currently, the wiki has a lot of wiki-user homepages. There are two > issues related to those wiki pages: > > 1. Wiki pages and homepages share the main namespace which cause false > positive in search results... (yes some user choose some ambiguous > names like root, Aim, DebianLiveUser, Mac, netbug)
Is that possible to not search on wiki users pages by default ? > 2. Putting personal data under an open source license sounds weird. > Allowing to modify and redistribute those data is... not something > we want. (We discovered this issue as we were preparing the > re-licensing of the wiki). > > The initial plan was to simply move those pages to wiki.d.org/User/ and > leave those pages copyrighted to their owners. However there is an > alternative: > > What about moving those homepages to something like: > http://contibutors.debian.org ?? > > Pros: > * Every Debian contributor would have an (easy) to edit a homepage. > (Raphael Hertzog mentioned that DM/NM might experiment using wiki > homepage so applicant list their contributions) > * It is possible to write a macro to generate a Portfolio[1] > * The wiki could be used as a "weak" openid provider for other services. > (esp. for users that don't have alioth account yet). > > Cons: > * What about debian-community.org? Do we integrate some of the services > together, etc.. Cons: * Yet another place to look information for : there are already dozens or more websites where information is spread. That really makes entry of new contributors harder. -- Simon Paillard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-www-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
