On Dec 6, 2009, at 11:42 PM, Pascal Robert wrote: Le 09-12-06 à 15:12, Kieran Kelleher a écrit : Not really. Only people with accounts can edit AFAIK:
Spammers also create blog accounts to add spam as comments to blogs, spammers create Twitter spam bots, spammers always find a way to give you headaches even when you require to create accounts...
I haven't noticed any of this specifically on wiki.objectstyle.org ........ just saying.
And I like that it is *easy* for any community developers to get an account and contribute. This is the path of *least resistance* for the community to accumulate and share knowledge for sure IMHO.
But I like the fact that only a few can modify the wocommunity.org pages... I'm a big fan of wikis, but without editors and administrators, it can be a total chaos, especially for "critical content", the "Getting started" page is such content. We can't "afford" that anybody with an account can delete/modify the critical content and looking like fools because wocommunity.org links to deleted content or content with spam links in it... But we can use the wiki to write drafts of the content for wocommunity.org...
I think both sites are needed. But no more sites than those two. We are in violent agreement. :-)
On Dec 6, 2009, at 2:02 PM, Pascal Robert wrote: Really wiki.objectstyle.org is *the* best single centreal site because we *all* have access to it and we can *all* update it. It has the best chance of being maintained. The nature of the community support beast is that stuff will be scattered around the place, but IIRC, we all kinda agreed that the wiki was to be the central "community knowledge" store and wocommunity.org was the "ambassador for WO" .......
Why the WAS in "wocommunity.org was the "ambassador for WO" ......." ? Why talking in the past? Yes, the site didn't get some love for a couple of months because I like busing doing two WOWODCs, having people asking me what future WO have, doing damage control when stupid Web sites talks about Apple dropping WO support in SL, editing 30 hours of video content, and building the store. So yeah, I think it's a bit normal that the Web site didn't get some love. But I'm finally getting some help for the new design and for content...
Hey, I lived in a Gaeltacht (Irish speaking district) until I was 17yrs old, so forgive my imperfect English :-P ..... I meant we agreed "in that past" .... it still *is* the ambassador site as far as I am concerned.
If pascal wants, he could include the entire wiki within a page frame on wocommunity.org for newbie lack of immediate confusion perhaps. For wocommunity.org changes, we must direct that to Pascal.
One advantage for the wiki is that everyone can update it, but it also a big problem. Spammers can update it, someone can delete the content, etc. And as for updating the wocommunity.org, I have no problem with having helpers, sadly so far only David LeBer is helping me on that.
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