[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] important message for maemo.org wiki users

[From: Marius Gedminas]

On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 10:14:24AM +0200, Quim Gil wrote:
> There is this still too abstract idea of tagging doc pages with status
> i.e. "unreviewed draft", "official doc", "works for me" etc. Those tags
> could be assigned either at an official level (to distinguish supported
> docs from those not officially supported) or at a community level (to
> distinguish good/useful documentation from the rest).

That sounds like a good idea.

> The use case of one maemo admin tagging a doc as official has no
> mystery. Then we would have some community based use cases with some
> more planning complexity i.e.:
> 
> - 32 identified users say this unofficial doc just works as expected,
> while 4 say it needs improvement and 0 tagged it as buggy. I would trust
> the content of this page, specially if the "last update" was made three
> weeks ago.
> 
> - 17 identified users say this official doc is in fact outdated. I would
> probably trust them.
> 
> - 14 users have tagged this doc as "experimental - use at your own
> risk". I probably will leave it for tomorrow.

How would it work when you have a page tagged with "37 people say this
works for them", and then somebody comes and (perhaps unintentionally)
breaks the instructions?

How would it work when you have a page tagged with "37 people say this
works for them", and then somebody comes and fixes a trivial typo?

How does the software distinguish these two edits?

Marius Gedminas
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