Re: aims of the wiki?
> The idea of writing a "mission statement" has come up a couple of times,
> but not in enough detail to write something up in DebianWiki/WikiRevamp.
> To what extent should a mission statement be driven by practical concerns,
> as opposed to principles? For example, using CC-BY-SA 4.0 has implications
> for people who want to paste code snippets into publicly-released programs -
> does that mean the wiki aims to be a place to workshop merge requests?
>
I tihnk principles should come first, to enable a more informed
discussion of the details.
What does debian you want the wiki to be? (a replacement for
wikipedia? for ArchWiki? something else?)
who is it aimed at? (non-users? new users? all users? contributors? developers?)
what kinds of pages should and should be there -- I see several
different types of pages at the moment, eg
1. working space used by various debian teams (useful)
2. documentation of debian-specific things - [[sbuild]],
[[SourcesLits]], [[DebianOn]] (useful)
3. documentation of generic linux things (are these really that
useful?) - [[systemd]], [[Hardware]], [[SymLink]], even [[FrontPage]]
the 3rd category seems to encourage some structural issues to me, but
it's not unreasonable to have them -- but what does the project want
from pages like this?
> Personally, I find this conversation is more about the journey than the
> destination.
but before that there is - how and why are we travelling?
> [0] https://wiki.debian.org/MaythamAlsudany/DraftContentGuidelines
It's interesting to reconcile this to what is there, eg "should be
about Debian" - i 100% agree with this, but a lot of the pages arnt
really.
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