On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 11:25:24AM -0600, Pete Travis wrote: > collaboration, and the quality of the resulting copy. Without a well > established collaborative workflow, a very low barrier to contribution > leads to low quality documentation. We have seen this with both the Fedora > wiki and with Ask Fedora. StackExchange works because users aggressively > cull out dupes and poor answers, and that is not happening with Fedora's This works on Stack Exchange because there's a lot of well-considered and constantly tweaked UX design focused on the community moderation side. The wiki has nothing like that at all (and, arguably, makes it painful to even try), and Askbot has weird surface level copies of Stack Exchange with no understanding of why things are there or what they actually do. > sites. There is already a general expectation to not be redundant or > incorrect on these platforms, and IMO that expectation is not being met. > Providing the same kind of platform to the same user base with the same > expectations will likely produce the same result. Yeah, community expectations are important too. I think in Ask Fedora, the lack of a "meta" is a crucial part of the pain — and in the Wiki, maybe it's correspondingly a lack of a culture of using the Talk pages for similar purpose. This is a tangent from your point, but what you're talking about made me realize that any new service made without a clear connection to a community communication mechanism is going to fail. (Maybe a new Hub for docs would serve? Or, less grandiose, simply prominent connections to the hyperkitty interface for this list?) -- Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fedora Project Leader -- docs mailing list docs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/docs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
