Henne wrote what is in general advisable for any article. I'll expand a bit on that: Presentation should be in Main namespace. It should be written so that it changes very little with the time. Using links to software search to find software, upstream news, SDB articles should provide relatively static LXC presentation. Instructions how to install and configure depend on development and they can be in SDB namespace. On Tuesday 16 November 2010 08:54:24 Brian K. White wrote:
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
Right.
and everything else is still actually a wiki?
Look Help:Namespace for explanation. In old wiki allowing to "scribble" at random did not work well. Updating articles did not work well too, although it wasn't restricted. Ditto, it is established quality control, using FlaggedRevs, a MediaWiki extension, that by now pretty efficiently demotivates scribbling, for instance by spammers to embed spam in existing pages. On the other hand, anyone can click on link "Draft page" (top right on pages that are not reviewed) and see new version of the article, so nothing is actually hidden, not even from casual visitors, but they at least know what is last version that was approved by someone. Workflow in a current wiki is not perfect either, but we working on it. You comment is valuable feedback, although I agree with Henne that tone is sharper then expected from someone that missed whole "Help" section in a wiki sidebar: * Wiki http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Wiki * Create a Page http://en.opensuse.org/Help:Concept * Change a Page http://en.opensuse.org/Help:Editing * Find a Page http://en.opensuse.org/Help:Search Your complaint is anyway valid, as you are not alone among single articles maintainers that don't read help files and are surprised when change is not instantly visible. Maybe links in sidebar are not visible enough, or clear enough that one has to read them to understand how new wiki works. Maybe we missed something in linked articles that should be added so that everyone reading them can easily see what to do after changes to articles that should be approved as fast as possible. -- Regards, Rajko -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-wiki+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-wiki+help@opensuse.org