The present is a clarifying communication not subject to discussion.
It happened that we had a pvt chat discussion with Ben79 and Raphael
(logged-in also Bero but not sure he did read everything or paid much
attention) where Ben complained about the fact that only Raphael and
me have write access to the wiki pages so he requested to allow other
users to contribute.
What follows are indisputable facts:
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The old instances of OM wiki (more than one) have deteriorated over
the time: pages created and not kept up to date, wrong informations,
obsolete informations, general confusion, different style of content,
clutter, neglect, etc. etc. (just a few examples). -
The above led us to forcefully decide to start again a new instance
of wiki from scratch, using a different tool. After some tests we
chose wiki.js.
With āweā I mean Raphael and me. Raphael took care of the software
installation and the technical part, I decided the basic content from
which to start, with his help too. -
We also agreed that instead of a wiki we rather needed more a tool
for official documentation.
In fact we also considered some available tools, similar to the one
used by dnf.readthedocs.io.
I acknowledge that keep speaking of āwikiā, keeping the word āwikiā
instead of maybe āDocumentationā was a mistake. Sorry for not having
foreseen the detail, my fault. -
I have drawn some guidelines for content and form:
Tags | OpenMandriva wiki in order to find consistency
throughout all the wiki. -
I wrote and published 99% of the pages in English, and 100% of the
pages in Italian (some Italian translations were kindly provided
una-tantum by an Italian user). -
I like and advocate things neat and tidy so that they can be enjoyed
by a wide audience, so I followed this basic rule. -
Since the beginning until now, NOBODY complained about anything
(content or style).
There have been times when I asked for a little help: sometimes I
received it, sometimes not. The times I got it I was happy and
grateful.
Not one time anyone has remarked any error or criticized anything.
Never. This makes me believe Iām doing a good job there, like Iām sure
everybody would believe re himself in the same situation.
Well, now Ben79ās request surprised me.
I did explain him the reasons, and that I donāt need any help as Iām
willing and happy to maintain the wiki content.
Aside, to create content from scratch is way better than to have to
review and fix other peopleās writing (because you will have to, trust
me), with the latter to be often really exhausting and time wasting.
Last but not least, even if Iām far from writing a perfect English, I
know how an Official Documentation must read while people often slip
into more colloquial forms and/or (especially English lang natives)
local way of sayings or even slang, that kind of crap which is not
really proper for Official Docs.
As said, I did explain the reasons but Ben insisted on his point. I
respect the opinion but disagree.
Long story short, I resign from āwikiā content maintainance. Itās a
definitive decision.
Personally I cannot afford such working method, nor I can now just go
ahead like nothing had happened when I realized that someone has the
feeling that I want to dictate rules by my own like a dictator (or āin
control of everythingā as I litterally have been accused). Thatās not
fair toward anyone, and isnāt going to work.
Feel free to provide patch [cit.]
Iām sure Ben has already some good ideas on how-to manage the wiki affair.
Greetings,