[documentation] does this seem funny to anyone else?

[Richard Hood]

My two cents:

1. "..join the Drupal doc team which is somewhat difficult to find and join"

Somehow I think having to join a team to work on docs is a good idea, and
would keep that.  But if it is hard to do, that should be changed.  For me
it was not hard to do (6 months ago or so), it just took a long time to get
added. Not a complaint, just something to look at.

One practical problem to allowing any registered user to change docs pages
is, I assume, that the only way to block them if necessary (and it will be)
is to block the user entirely instead of just removing a role. Is that
correct?

2. BOOK PAGE versus WIKI content type

Boy maybe I am just used to it, but I really like the Book Page system. 

I can see how adding freelinking to Book Pages might be cool. Isn't that
just a matter of enabling the freelinking module on Drupal.org handbook
pages (and maybe wikitools module)?  Or is that not as simple as it sounds
and/or Drupal.org wants to keep modules to a minimum for performance?  

3. It seems that editing Book pages and Wiki pages both teaks 2 clicks. 

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Anyhow thanks Ricco for the discussion and the informative pages here:

http://groups.drupal.org/wikihelp 

I didn't know much about Wiki functionality in Drupal until reading that.

Rick




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[mailto:documentation-bounces at drupal.org] On Behalf Of ricco at webulite.com
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 3:36 AM
To: documentation at drupal.org
Subject: [documentation] does this seem funny to anyone else?

lol... this kind of cracks me up. In a frustrating kind of way :)

Instead of getting OKed to create about the 265th group,
http://groups.drupal.org/WikiHelp
1) to promote the wiki content type
2) that can be edited with one click
3) and promote [[freelinking]] syntax

The recommendation seems to be;

1) join the Drupal doc team which is somewhat difficult to find and join,
and make changes that others will not be able to change unless they also
join the drupal doc team, which again, is not even know by most people.

2) so that I can make content type BOOK page that I do not want to promote
instead of the content type WIKI content type that I do

3) and use a syntax I don't want to promote, FILTERED HTML, instead of the
FREELINKING syntax I want to promote.

4) to build pages that anyone that views them will never be able to change
with one click (like wiki pages), and will probably never realize they
might also be able to change, if they can find how to join the doc team
themselves, and wanted to take the time to do so. So I am not building a
community where people EASILY change pages I have started

5) So that that I can build karma with Drupal

6) so that Drupal might consider changing their system to add allow wiki
content types on drupal.org some day

7) so that I can do what groups.drupal.org does today and I have already
created in working form.


Does this seem kind of funny to anyone else?

Cheers! Ricco

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