On Sat, 7 Aug 2010, Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
2010/8/7 Michael Witten <mfwitten@xxxxxxxxx>:
On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 12:56, Amir E. Aharoni
<amir.aharoni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I opened an account on https://git.wiki.kernel.org/ , created a user
page and put there a link to my blog. That's always the first thing i
do on wikis to which i plan to contribute, because that's the easiest
way to tell the world who i am before i start changing pages that
other people wrote.
I say this without malice: Nobody really cares who you are.
And you are quite right, but from several years of experience with
wikis i saw much more misunderstanding coming from editing without
creating a user page than from creating a user page without editing,
so what happened to me today was quite shocking.
And all the more: if you don't care about user pages, just lock them
for editing.
the git developers (and the portion of the community that they represent)
tend to care far more about the content of the contribution (either in
documentation or in code) than who the author is.
I agree that if user pages aren't wanted on the wiki they should just be
disabled, but for whatever reason they are not.
there is a lot of spamming happening nowdays in wikis and other web
forums, so it's not too surprising to me that a page that is just 'this is
who I am and here is a link to my blog' would be considered spam. There
are companies who are out there trying to get improved google ratings by
having lots of pages with links to their page. many of them do this by
buying lots of domains and hosting them in different places, but there are
a lot that are unethical enough to put pages very similar to what you
describe as having posted on any site they can manage to get into.
so, what Michael posted really is true (or at least very close to true),
the git community really doesn't care who you are, feel free to contibute,
ask questions, etc. As you contribute you will build a reputation within
git, but you will never be grilled about your outside expericance, and
unless you have something directly related to what you are submitting
(i.e. I did this before, <here> and it worked really well) nobody will
care about it.
Remember that when Linus started coding linux, he was a nobody, and the
established experts were telling him that what he was doing was the wrong
way to do anything. With that sort of background, the community cares
about what you do, not who you are.
David Lang
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