[ovirt-devel] [ovirt-users] Lowering the bar for wiki contribution?

[Roy Golan]

On 4 January 2017 at 12:17, Maor Lipchuk <mlipchuk at redhat.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 11:38 AM, Daniel Erez <derez at redhat.com> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 9:57 AM, Roy Golan <rgolan at redhat.com> wrote:
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>>> I'm getting the feeling I'm not alone in this, authoring and publishing
>>> a wiki page isn't as used to be for long time.
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>>> I want to suggest a bit lighter workflow:
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>>> 1.  Everyone can merge their page - (it's a wiki)
>>>   Same as with (public and open) code, no one has the motivation to
>>> publish a badly written
>>>   wiki page under their name. True, it can have an impact, but not as
>>> with broken code
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>> +1.
>> Moreover, I think we shouldn't block any merging. Instead, wiki
>> maintainers could act afterwards and revert when needed (Wikipedia style).
>> Another issue is that (sadly) unlike mediawiki, we need to wait for wiki
>> publish after a change. So I'd suggest to build and publish the wiki at
>> least once a day. Any way, I think we should make the workflow much more
>> intuitive and pleasant like the previous wiki - i.e. much less restrictive
>> than manipulating a code base.
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>>> 2. Use Page-Status marker
>>>  The author first merges the draft. Its now out there and should be
>>> updated as time goes and its
>>>  status is DRAFT. Maintainers will come later and after review would
>>> change the status to
>>>  PUBLISH. That could be a header in on the page:
>>>  ---
>>>  page status: DRAFT/PUBLISH
>>>  ---
>>>
>>>  Simple I think, and should work.
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>  +1
> The effort of maintaining the wiki today compare to how it used to be
> before is much more cumbersome and problematic.
> I think we can learn a lot from wikipedia workflow,
> It is a much more inviting process where anyone can change the content
> easily.
> I'm not saying we should let any anonymous user change the wiki but even
> if we make it easier in house we can achieve much more informative reliable
> and updated wiki.
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I really think Github Pages is a perfect fit and an alternative to my first
suggestion. see
https://github.com/oVirt/ovirt-site/wiki/Why-aren't-we-using-this%3F

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