The Scope and Ownership of fedora-list

[Les Mikesell]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> 
>>>> Just the same way things work now except that there would be less
>>>> repetition and once a pattern of showing useful info in the wiki
>>>> emerged, people would start to look there first.
>>> Just like how people use Google instead of asking about something on a
>>> mailing list...   ;-)
>> Google is about as far from a specifically collated and indexed set of
>> information as you can get.  If you don't already almost know what you
>> are looking for you are going to have a hard time sorting it out.  And
>> worse, old, incorrect information never dies there.  A mail list
>> provides timely/dated information but the questions and incorrect
>> responses make it difficult to find the existing content.  A wiki takes
>> a little extra effort to maintain, but allows each person who uses the
>> content to tweak it for correctness and their use cases.
>>
> A wiki takes a *lot* of effort to maintain if you want it to stay relevant.
> 
> Anne

Agreed, but there are a lot of people who can each contribute small 
portions - wikipedia being a large-scale example of the potential.  It's 
really less effort than repeating things in an email list once a 
structure is established - at least for things that have 'right' answers.

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   Les Mikesell
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