Greg, > I think the lessons of wikipedia is precisely that you *don't* want to add > such barriers. You want to let people add stuff pretty much freely. That > encourages people to get involved and put up information.
The other lesson of Wikipedia is that maintaining wiki quality for a generally editable wiki requires a full-time dedicated staff. We don't even have any volunteers who have 4 hours/week to commit to cleaning up the wiki, unless you're volunteering. This is *particularly* true of the TODO stuff. We simply don't want Joe User adding their personal wishlist to the TODOs, and that's exactly what will happen if the TODO list is world-writable. TODOs should be items which have been hashed out here on the Hackers list, and the wiki page should list the specification which is the general consensus. If we had a "user documentation wiki", then *that* should be world-editable, but again that would require community volunteers to dedicate to cleaning it up. The developer wiki is by and for actual contributors. -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL @ Sun San Francisco ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
