[sword-devel] Wiki writers - attention

[David Haslam]

Peter,

The amount of time required to review deletions is generally much greater than that required to review additions.

So to say that "a delete is just a step away from a revert" actually obscures this important consideration.

I've no intenton to start revert wars, but this culling and pruning activity was launched with no prior discussion, even with the other admins for the wiki.

I'm still mystified why it suddenly became a high priority.

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.
>
>> -------- 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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