[sword-devel] Wiki writers - attention

[David Haslam]

Peter,

Please bear in mind that as a small community, we use a lot of in-house jargon as well as general computer technology jargon.

Remember too that first-time visitors to the wiki may not even know (e.g.) the difference between a front-end and a back-end.

It's not unreasonable to provide links to publicly available information sources to help them learn and understand what we are talking about.

Providing in-line links for such technical terms is surely a matter of common courtesy?

Best regards,

David

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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Aw: Re: [sword-devel] Wiki writers - attention
> Local Time: 8 January 2018 10:12 AM
> UTC Time: 8 January 2018 10:12
> From: refdoc at gmx.net
> To: dfhdfh at protonmail.com, sword-devel at crosswire.org
>
> No anger. Just the need to clear some space in the wiki to make it readable again.
>
> We do need a balance of "deletism" and addition of content. Preferably within the same people, as this removes any doubt of upset and as we are a very small group. But as it is I think a deliberate and deep cutting delete effort will be needed to clear the wood. The balance is tipped for no fault of anyone other than all of us as a collective.
>
> Always bear in mind any delete is a couple of button clicks from a restore. There is no animosity in deleting things. It is as valid editing as adding things.
>
> Peter
>
> Gesendet: Montag, 08. Januar 2018 um 09:41 Uhr
> Von: "David Haslam" <dfhdfh at protonmail.com>
> An: "SWORD Developers' Collaboration Forum" <sword-devel at crosswire.org>
> Betreff: Re: [sword-devel] Wiki writers - attention
> Peter,
>
> It comes over from that last reply that you are acting out of anger.
>
> Please pause - you are at serious risk of upsetting your friends.
>
> If anyone has upset you, please take this up with them in private.
>
> Not everyone that reads our developers' wiki is highly technical.
>
> Best regards,
>
> David
>
> Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email.
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>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: Re: [sword-devel] Wiki writers - attention
>> Local Time: 8 January 2018 9:35 AM
>> UTC Time: 8 January 2018 09:35
>> From: refdoc at gmx.net
>> To: sword-devel at crosswire.org
>>
>> On Mon, 2018-01-08 at 08:08 +0000, Peter von Kaehne wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, 2018-01-08 at 07:40 +0000, Peter von Kaehne wrote:
>>>
>>>> We are currently engaging in a bit of culling and pruning
>>>> activity.
>>
>> I will be shooting Wikipedia links more or less on sight. Many of these
>> are either irrelevant or aim at a very low level of technical
>> knowledge.
>>
>> I am wondering if there is a bot which could clean them all?
>>
>> Despite using the same technology, the wiki is not (or rather, should
>> not be) an encyclopedia for general computing knowledge.
>>
>> Peter
>>
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