Debian Wiki participation..?
One of the things I've never understood about Debian is why the wiki
is so inactive when compared to other distributions, the simple fact
of life is that nine times out of ten I find the information I'm
looking for on the Arch or Gentoo wikis - not the Debian wiki. I am
now beginning to understand why, let me tell you a story...
On the Openbox page http://wiki.debian.org/Openbox I noticed some
advice that I thought was not exactly best practice
".... Add the following to the autostart.sh file in /etc/xdg/openbox."
As I understand it a user should copy these files to ~/.config/openbox
folder and edit these local files.
Being a dutiful netizen I thought I'd mention this on the discussion
page and see what other users thought. Hmmm... no discussion page but
it seems I can create one... but wait... I need to be logged in to do
that. I can understand the need to be logged in - reduce spam and all
- so off I go to register.
On the registration page quite reasonably I'm asked for my email
address HOWEVER I can find no link to any form of privacy statement
saying what will be done with my email address so being a cautious
netizen I do not register, I do not make my suggestion and I start to
understand why the Debian wiki is so relatively inactive.
Peter
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