[documentation] does this seem funny to anyone else?

[Joshua Brauer]

I'd thought about this off and on over the years. Then recently Larry  
Garfield wrote a piece that encapsulated the situation brilliantly  
pointing out that Drupal.org effectively *has* a wiki:

http://www.garfieldtech.com/drupal-org-wiki

As Larry suggests in his article, for me the idea of adding non-HTML  
markup to the documentation of a system that is all about building and  
serving HTML is counter-productive. Users with the desire need only  
ask and they can have edit rights on content and they need to know  
very rudimentary HTML. If someone doesn't know the most basic of HTML  
perhaps a few hours spent learning it would be a worthwhile pre- 
requisite to contributing to the documentation of a system that is all  
about HTML.

Josh

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On Apr 2, 2008, at 8:56 AM, Steve Dondley wrote:

> Walter,
>
> This proves that following the "Build it and they will come" is a
> gamble. You need buy-in and agreement from others most of the time.
>
> To get buy-in, you need karma. To get karma, you need to contribute.
> To contribute, you need to work within the system as it is.
>
> Call it politics or whatever, but that is how humans haved tended to
> operate for the last 3 million years. I don't think it's likely to
> change anytime soon.
>
> That is why my advice to ricco is to not ask the community to bend to
> his needs but to have him bend to the community's needs. If the
> community jumped at every request from every person, no matter how
> worth, nothing would get done. You need to first earn the reputation
> to be able to persuade others that your way is superior.
>
> On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 10:28 AM, Walter GR <waltergr at aol.com> wrote:
>> ricco at webulite.com wrote:
>>> lol... this kind of cracks me up. In a frustrating kind of way :)
>>> <snip>
>>>
>>> Cheers! Ricco
>>
>> In June of last year, I suggested that doing documentation-as-a-wiki
>> might be a good idea.
>>
>> I created one, much to others' chagrin.  They suggested I join the
>> documentation team.  I decided to pursue that route.
>>
>> As I had a wiki at my disposal, I decided to use it for proposing  
>> some
>> changes to the documentation.  I spent *hours* making improvements,  
>> and
>> then posted a link requesting feedback:
>>
>> http://lists.drupal.org/pipermail/documentation/2007-June/005657.html
>>
>> Nobody gave any feedback.  I don't even know if anyone looked at my
>> proposed changes.
>>
>> Best of luck, Ricco.
>>
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