[documentation] New Forms API tutorial

[Steve Dondley]

> I think not attributing aricles on their face gives the handbook a Wikipedia
> feel. The page itself isn't authored by anyone, but finding out who was
> involved is just one click away.

I thinks we'd get more contributors if we were better at giving public
credit to contributors. Please see my post earlier this evening:

http://lists.drupal.org/pipermail/documentation/2008-May/006023.html

> While it is true that anonymous users can not see the revision tab, I
> believe for drupal.org this requirement should be considered a fairly low
> barrier.

Why have any barrier at all? Is there some good reason we should hide
who contributed to the Drupal project? I can't think of why it
benefits the Drupal project in any way to hide contributors from
anonymous users. Why not have a nice block "the following people have
contributed to this page...you can too!" Don't you think that would be
much better at getting finding contributors. Because that's what this
is really about, encouraging people to contribute. Hiding the list
does not encourage people to contribute, having a public list does.

Please address this issue in the context of this post:
http://lists.drupal.org/pipermail/documentation/2008-May/006023.html

>
> Shai
>
> On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 8:56 PM, Steve Dondley <sdondley at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> And just for the record, here was my original assertion:
>>
>> "Please correct me if I'm wrong on this, but only those with permission
>> can see the list of revisions."
>>
>> I never said "user accounts". I said "those with permission". That
>> would be a superset of all users, anonymous or not.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 8:48 PM, Larry Garfield <larry at garfieldtech.com>
>> wrote:
>> > On Sunday 25 May 2008, Steve Dondley wrote:
>> >> > You are wrong.  Any user account on Drupal.org can see the revisions.
>> >>
>> >> Can you please enlighten me? Because I'm looking at the documentation
>> >> while logged out and I see no "revisions" tab.
>> >
>> > Anonymous isn't a "real" user account.  He said any user account, vis,
>> > uid 1
>> > or higher.
>> >
>> > --
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>> > larry at garfieldtech.com          ICQ: 6817012
>> >
>> > "If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of
>> > exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an
>> > idea,
>> > which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to
>> > himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the
>> > possession
>> > of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it."  --
>> > Thomas
>> > Jefferson
>> > --
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>> >
>>
>>
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