On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 1:46 AM, Ralph Angenendt <ra+centos@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Akemi Yagi wrote: >> The principle of Wiki is participation of anyone who wishes to >> contribute. That of course raises a question of how we can maintain >> the contents correct or appropriate. I agree that having an editorial >> group consisting of knowledgeable people is a good idea. Now, as >> exemplified in Ned's comment, there are Wiki articles that have been >> most exclusively maintained by the original author. And there are >> pages whose original author is no longer active but instead is being >> maintained by another person. Naturally, those who are currently >> looking after the articles might want to take responsibility. > > Sure, I guess that that would work *if* those authors monitor changes in > their articles. > >> Therefore I would also like the idea of assigning a person/people to >> each page if (or whenever) we have such volunteers. > > Do you think we have that many people? Does that mean that noone else > monitors those pages for changes? This is *in addition to* the editorial team, not something exclusive. The team should monitor everything as you wrote. > I still think that that should be left to people doing those pages > themselves (or do you know of any automatic way to do so which doesn't > get overwritten when a page is changed by somebody else?) - but hey, > that's only my opinion. And I think that this is a rather different > issue altogether. Well, it may be related here. I suspect some authors may not want their pages freely overwritten by others. I know this is against the Wiki's spirit but nonetheless. I also understand their concern. Akemi > Cheers, > > Ralph
