I agree with Nathaniel, Disclaimer makes sense, but may this concern Drupal Association? So I just request this but can't provide any idea to solve this polemic issue.<br><br>Blessings!<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 7:16 AM, Mr. Meitar Moscovitz <<a href="mailto:meitarm@gmail.com">meitarm@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div style=""><div><div class="Ih2E3d"><div>On Jun 5, 2008, at 8:01 PM, Nathaniel Catchpole wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite">Whilst thinking about the contributors block and last updated info, it occurred to me we don't have a disclaimer displayed for all handbook pages. I think it'd make sense to have something displayed on all pages to make it clear that it's community contributed documentation etc. - might be worth putting in the contributors block. "All documentation is contributed by volunteers and may not have been checked for accuracy" something like that.<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>I'm kind of just wondering aloud here, but isn't it pretty obvious that Drupal is entirely a community-driven, volunteer-run project, and that *all* of its code/documentation has come from volunteers and may not have been checked for accuracy?</div>
<div><br></div><div>I can see that there's certainly a fine line to walk here, but since any d.o user account can add a new handbook page, I would imagine that it's pretty self-evident where the documentation comes from.</div>
<div><br></div><div>So as not to be nothing but a dissenter, what about this idea: rather than blanket the entire handbook with a big disclaimer, why not develop a set of standard snippets that we as doc team members can add to pages we feel are dangerous, risky, or need any other kind of red-flag placed on them. I'm thinking something along the lines of Wikipedia's "The community feels that this article might need revision…" sort of things. See any of the massive list of template messages at</div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Template_messages" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Template_messages</a></div><div><br></div><div>for examples. Currently, it seems to me that the docs team does do this, but we do this by submitting issues against certain nodes, which are not visible from the handbook pages themselves and thus no user browsing the handbook pages would see them. Using something akin to Wikipedia's template messages system (which is purely enforced by convention, not by the software—which is sensible if you ask me), would remedy that problem.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Of course, I have no idea what the technical implementation of that would look like. Just brainstorming here.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><div style=""><div style=""><div>--</div><div>-Meitar Moscovitz</div>
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<div class="Ih2E3d"> For example, code snippets probably need this more than most.<br><br><a href="http://drupal.org/handbook/customization/snippets" target="_blank">http://drupal.org/handbook/customization/snippets</a> - has a disclaimer<br>
<a href="http://drupal.org/node/45471" target="_blank">http://drupal.org/node/45471</a> - (theme snippets parent) has a disclaimer<br> <a href="http://drupal.org/node/35728" target="_blank">http://drupal.org/node/35728</a> - an actual code snippet, doesn't have a disclaimer. Unless I find the snippet via the handbook hierarchy (and IMO more people will find it from incoming links, irc, google and <a href="http://drupal.org" target="_blank">drupal.org</a> search than clicking through), I won't see the disclaimer.<br>
<br>If the block happens, then it's just an extra sentence to add, but it'd need to be carefully worded - since equally we don't want to give the idea that there's official, non-volunteer documentation hiding somewhere.<br>
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