Re: Advocacy wiki

[Jim Nasby <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org>]

On Jul 25, 2007, at 7:20 PM, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> - --On Wednesday, July 25, 2007 18:12:50 -0700 Jim Nasby  
> <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org>
> wrote:
>
> > My intention was indeed that general community members could make  
> > use of
> > this. I want to make it easier for other people to advocate  
> > PostgreSQL, and
> > part of that is providing a place where they can upload  
> > presentations,
> > photos, etc. This is something that should be collaborative in  
> > nature, so I
> > don't think techdocs is a good place for it.
>
> I'd like to move the developer wiki to it own VPS, and out of the core
> developer one, just to save against potential 'web based security  
> holes' ...
> would it be an idea ot setup a seperate 'advocacy wiki', along the  
> lines of
> what you are suggesting (with suitable moderation / review) from  
> the developer
> one, which would remian closed?

Perhaps we should stop drawing the line at "developer" and "advocacy"  
and just have one wiki that's open to public edits and one that's not.

> And, do you  have the time / energy to actually moderate such a  
> beast ... I
> think one of the bigger fears is ppl uploading mis-information into  
> such an
> "official wiki", and I think that fear is fairly justified with the  
> amount of
> spam-bots going around filling in forms left-right-and-center ...

If it's dependent on a single person to keep it clean, we're doing  
something wrong. :)

But yes, I'll certainly help in that regard.

> Personally, I can see the benefit of what you are suggesting, but  
> do think that
> a certain amount of control / moderation is required to keep it  
> clean and
> accurate ... then again, maybe we want Al Dev back again?  For  
> those that don't
> know the name, he into 'creative technical writing' that is akin to  
> 'the aliens
> are coming' :)

Sure, we'll have to keep an eye on it. It might also be a good idea  
to make it clear that it's unofficial.
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