Am Dienstag, den 09.05.2006, 19:53 +0100 schrieb Thomas Hertweck:
Well, it's a wiki, isn't it?
That's one of the things I didn't understand right away. It's not that long ago that I visited opensuse.org the first time, and I did *not* know that it was a wiki, I assumed it was a corporate website, like a successor of suse.com.
And from my point of view, wikis have assets as well as drawbacks. You describe one of the drawbacks. I have made quite a lot of negative experiences with wikis as more or less everybody is able to change the pages. One day you add something, the next day it's gone. One day you fix a description in the wiki (and you really know what you're doing there), the next day somebody has removed your fix and replaced it with the old (and wrong) text because he thought he knew better. And so on... I like the idea that everybody can contribute, but wikis also need some sort of "quality control", some "stability" as you describe it.
The idea of "protected" pages like the opensuse front page is a step in the right direction I think. Drawbacks aside, I can see the advantages a wiki can have over a traditionally maintained website. I used them myself by making some quick changes to articles.
I (that's my personal opinion) would much prefer a managed system over a wiki, but I guess there are not enough resources to achieve something like that.
I really don't know if that's the problem. The greatest advantage of a wiki is imho how easily people can add their contributions, which in turn makes them a lot more connected to the particular community. -- Andreas