[pmwiki-users] Re: Dare I edit the page? (Was: suggestion for continuously improving...

[chr at home.se]

On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, Neil Herber wrote:

> At 2005-01-28  06:41 PM +0100, chr at home.se is rumored to have said:
> >So what I'm wondering is if we can come up with some nice way to indicate
> >that people are welcome to edit the page, or perhaps on the contrary, that
> >you should now what you are doing?  What would the different "levels" be?
> 
> If we are talking strictly about PmWiki.org pages, then I think the 
> mechanism is already in place, although not explicit.

No, I meant in general, and more particularly for user's that are new to 
wikis. The whole idea would be to encourage people to make changes (on the 
"right" pages and in the "right" way...)

Perhaps pages could have a link or a popup-window next to the 'edit'-link 
that contains instructions? This text could be similar to what you wrote, 
i.e. about putting comments at the end etc. Or the text could say: "Don't 
edit unless you know what you're doing", or "All edits are welcome" etc. 
This is only one way to indicate the "level" of editability.. maybe there 
are better, more natural, ways?   

Perhaps having a text that shows up in the edit form, explaining the 
guidelines for editing this particular page could be useful?

Btw: pmwiki.org is actually a bit special since some of the pages are
"published" with the distribution of PmWiki, so there's the added
complication that Patrick might send off a set of pages that's incomplete.

/Christian


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Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44               http://www.md.kth.se/~chr