On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 12:22:30PM -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: > What is the current policy for having wiki-contributions re-written? I have > been a wiki-contributor for years, I've more than 28 years Unix/Linux > experience, I am an attorney, a registered professional engineer, and I have > spent years doing technical writing for NASA MOD and Space Flight Operations -- > I know technical writing. Over the past year or so it seems like every wiki > contribution made is re-written to the point that the immediacy of the needed > information is lost, is replaced by a link, or the contribution is reworded in a > bewildering manner. > > ... > > Under the current system, the pages are slowly becoming less-useful rather > than more useful as more and more information is chopped out of pages or > replaced by links to 3rd-party pages that may (or may not) be there tomorrow. I don't know why this is happening, but I got the same impression. Ciao, -- FA A world of exhaustive, reliable metadata would be an utopia. It's also a pipe-dream, founded on self-delusion, nerd hubris and hysterically inflated market opportunities. (Cory Doctorow)
