On 11/15/2010 11:57 PM, Rajko M. wrote:
On Monday 15 November 2010 20:49:25 Brian K. White wrote:
On 11/15/2010 8:05 PM, Matt Hayes wrote:
On 11/15/2010 07:36 PM, Brian K. White wrote:
How can I regain the authority which I seem to have lost, to update and correct the page that I created in the first place? en.opensuse.org/LXC ...
Fixed, ie. approved.
You can use any communication channel to ask in order to speed up approval. As you can see opensuse-wiki emails might be the fastest way to get attention of wiki people. Forums are also possible, I check them almost daily, which is not that fast. IRC #opensuse-wiki can be also good, but while my nick (simon123) hangs there few hours a day, that doesn't mean that I'm behind computer all the time.
If you have time to check another articles then you can get editor/reviewer status.
I'm sorry for the way this will sound but this is not then a wiki. It's just a traditional web site that happens to use wiki software internally for it's cms. Those are garbage for quantity and quality of info compared to a wiki. This article and my reaction to this discovery are a perfect example why. It goes like this: The page was stale, meaning it was incorrect in the context of the current software it attempts to document. I fixed it. It remained stale for several days and would have remained stale for who knows how long if I hadn't decided to go out of my way to find some place to complain about it. And now, although the current fixes are finally published, there are still many things to add and improve, but I am most likely not going to bother doing them here. Readers of the article as it stands now will hit at least two little problems that I already know about. Oh well too bad the wiki revamp team annoyed the author into going elsewhere. So, as an author I am annoyed and will most likely not bother updating or improving that article any further, since I'd rather do it on howtoforge or some other actual wiki. And as a reader I am poorly served by stale articles and a reduced pool of authors. Way to go opensuse wiki revamp team, again. Or is it just that this article happens to be in the root namespace and maybe just that is no longer allowed to be scribbled on at random and everything else is still actually a wiki? That would be just tolerable. In that case I'll just copy it to some other namespace where the info can be kept current and someone who is paid by novell to curate their web site can replace the existing root namespace article with an overview that should require little upkeep, with links to the real tech info elsewhere. -- bkw -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-wiki+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-wiki+help@opensuse.org