Peter,
The human factor in all this should not be underestimated.
Deletions and reversions can have a profoundly negative impact to discourage
future additions or edits.
I can recall how Chris Burrell as a newbie to the wiki spend a huge amount of
time to add a lot of detailed information about STEP Bible.
Former CrossWire worker Chris Little just summarily reverted it, with no
thought to the human factors.
The result was that Chris Burrell was severely discouraged from making any
further valuable additions to the wiki.
I do not want to see such a scenario repeated. We need all the helpers and
volunteers we can get.
Best regards,
David
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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: Aw: Re: [sword-devel] Wiki writers - attention
> Local Time: 8 January 2018 10:49 AM
> UTC Time: 8 January 2018 10:49
> From: dfh...@protonmail.com
> To: Peter Von Kaehne <ref...@gmx.net>
> sword-devel@crosswire.org <sword-devel@crosswire.org>
>
> Peter,
>
> The amount of time required to review deletions is generally much greater
> than that required to review additions.
>
> So to say that "a delete is just a step away from a revert" actually obscures
> this important consideration.
>
> I've no intenton to start revert wars, but this culling and pruning activity
> was launched with no prior discussion, even with the other admins for the
> wiki.
>
> I'm still mystified why it suddenly became a high priority.
>
> Best regards,
>
> David
>
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>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: Aw: Re: [sword-devel] Wiki writers - attention
>> Local Time: 8 January 2018 10:12 AM
>> UTC Time: 8 January 2018 10:12
>> From: ref...@gmx.net
>> To: dfh...@protonmail.com, sword-devel@crosswire.org
>>
>> No anger. Just the need to clear some space in the wiki to make it readable
>> again.
>>
>> We do need a balance of "deletism" and addition of content. Preferably
>> within the same people, as this removes any doubt of upset and as we are a
>> very small group. But as it is I think a deliberate and deep cutting delete
>> effort will be needed to clear the wood. The balance is tipped for no fault
>> of anyone other than all of us as a collective.
>>
>> Always bear in mind any delete is a couple of button clicks from a restore.
>> There is no animosity in deleting things. It is as valid editing as adding
>> things.
>>
>> Peter
>>
>> Gesendet: Montag, 08. Januar 2018 um 09:41 Uhr
>> Von: "David Haslam" <dfh...@protonmail.com>
>> An: "SWORD Developers' Collaboration Forum" <sword-devel@crosswire.org>
>> Betreff: Re: [sword-devel] Wiki writers - attention
>> Peter,
>>
>> It comes over from that last reply that you are acting out of anger.
>>
>> Please pause - you are at serious risk of upsetting your friends.
>>
>> If anyone has upset you, please take this up with them in private.
>>
>> Not everyone that reads our developers' wiki is highly technical.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> David
>>
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>>
>>> -------- Original Message --------
>>> Subject: Re: [sword-devel] Wiki writers - attention
>>> Local Time: 8 January 2018 9:35 AM
>>> UTC Time: 8 January 2018 09:35
>>> From: ref...@gmx.net
>>> To: sword-devel@crosswire.org
>>>
>>> On Mon, 2018-01-08 at 08:08 +0000, Peter von Kaehne wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, 2018-01-08 at 07:40 +0000, Peter von Kaehne wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> We are currently engaging in a bit of culling and pruning
>>>>> activity.
>>>
>>> I will be shooting Wikipedia links more or less on sight. Many of these
>>> are either irrelevant or aim at a very low level of technical
>>> knowledge.
>>>
>>> I am wondering if there is a bot which could clean them all?
>>>
>>> Despite using the same technology, the wiki is not (or rather, should
>>> not be) an encyclopedia for general computing knowledge.
>>>
>>> Peter
>>>
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