[sword-devel] Wiki writers - attention

[Cyrille]

Le 08/01/2018 à 11:22, David Haslam a écrit :
> 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.

I agree with the idea. I collaborate a lot with the French Ubuntu
documentation, and often we use intrawiki links to allege pages.
>
> 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
>>  
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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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