[pmwiki-users] wiki etiquette for pmwiki documentation

Chris Cox ccox at airmail.net
Mon Oct 29 22:53:32 CDT 2007


christian.ridderstrom at gmail.com wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Oct 2007, Chris Cox wrote:
> 
>>> Hmm... well, if there's a maintainer and you add an important
>>> question etc, maybe it'd be a good idea to notify him?  Not sure
>>> about this.
>>
>> It's a wiki.  If you find a perceived mistake... change it. If you
>> want to clarify something... change it.  If you want to add to the
>> page... change it.  That's what it's there for.
> 
> Basically I agree with Chris, with the caveat that the recipes are
> usually instructions on how to do something, with conseques for the user
> of a recipe. And it might be difficult for an outsider to really know
> what/how a recipe does.  Then again, sometimes the maintainer doesn't
> know this instead:-)
> 
> It'd probably be nice if the maintainer "watched" his recipe pages for
> changes.

Yes... I'll go along with that.  If it's a recipe and you're changing
something in a radical way, you might want to email the author.
Just a courtesy.  But... you're right, we probably ought to be watching
pages that interest us (more in the wiki spirit).



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