[Digikam-devel] wiki for digikam (+kipi-plugins)?

[Gilles Caulier]

On Wednesday 20 December 2006 10:59, Arnd Baecker wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Dec 2006, Daniel Bauer wrote:
> > On Wednesday 20 December 2006 09:52, Arnd Baecker wrote:
> > > Dear all,
> > >
> > > would it be possible (and of interest)
> > > to set up a wiki for digikam related issues?
> > >
> > > For example Gilles had a very nice and helpful reply to Daniel Bauers
> > > questions on color management - it would be nice to conserve this
> > > (and update if necessary) at an easily accessible place.
> > >
> > > Best, Arnd
> > >
> > > P.S.: Gilles and all the many people behind digikam+kipi:
> > >       **many** thanks for this great software!!!
> >
> >            ^^^ I assent to this statement :-)
> >
> > While I agree that conserving good explanations is a good idea, I
> > think...
> >
> > - if a Wiki, I guess access must be restricted to some who know what they
> > are doing and what they say. If it will be like Wikipedia, where
> > everybody can put in its opinion, it will be just as useless. I've read
> > so much s**t in Wikipedia, that I can imagine such a Wiki would soon have
> > a lot of crap in it.
>
> Yes, this does happen with wikis ... ;-)
> On the other hand a wiki lives from the contributions of many...
>
> > - somebody would have to be the "manager", so that data is consistent and
> > can be found with useful indexes/links. The manager would also have to
> > avoid that the Wiki gets a place of discussion. To my eyes this is quite
> > a lot of work...
>
> Somehow it would be nice to keep the adminstrative workload
> small, and possibly distributed on a couple of knowledgeable persons ;-)
>
> > - As a suggestion: proposed entries for the wiki could be sent to the
> > Digikam-users mailing list, discussed/corrected/ameliorated there, and
> > then "the manager" places it on the Wiki (or not).
>
> Something which worked quite nice with www.scipy.org is
> to have users to edit their own space, to test out ideas etc.
> and if things are considered to be matured (e.g. with discussion
> on the mailing list) they can be moved to a more prominent place.
>
> Though I am not 100% sure about the manager role, I absolutely
> agree that a wiki does not replace discussions on the mailing list!

But i'm sure than i can't be the manager for a wiki. No more free time for 
that (:=)))...

Gilles