On Tue, Aug 19, 2025 at 11:37:32AM +0100, Andrew Sayers wrote:
On Mon, Aug 18, 2025 at 10:42:00AM +0200, Beatrice Torracca wrote:It is difficult because we always have to remember that authors are not paid to fill the Wiki with information, they are volunteer too, so we cannot force them to write what we would like to (we can do it ourselves ;)I think this is the key point. It makes sense to ask "what are the aims of www.debian.org?", because the www team have exclusive access and can agree what does and doesn't go there. But the question doesn't make sense for a world-writable resource - we can only talk about the aims of *our team*.
I don't understand your point. Why would it not make sense to set a scope for the wiki? How is it relevant for it that it is world-writable? The website has prior review and the wiki doesn't, but it doesn't mean that a content policy on the latter can't be enforced subsequently by removing out-of-scope articles.
To put it another way - if we agreed the only aim of the wiki was to support Debian teams, but someone came along and made a page about their favourite TV show, that aim wouldn't tell us anything helpful.
Why not? If the wiki were meant only to support Debian teams, a page about a TV show would be clearly out of scope.
But if we agreed the team aimed to provide support for other Debian teams, the answer would be obvious - reduce the page's visibility so it's not in the way, and only get rid of it if teams complain.
If "support Debian teams" as the aim of the wiki doesn't tell anything helpful, how does "support Debian teams" as the aim of a team provide criteria to decide that the page visibility should be reduced? And if "support Debian teams" as the aim of a team is enough to decide to reduce the visibility of a page, why is it not enough to utterly remove the same page which is not useful for any Debian team?
I hope I don't look critical about your idea - I'm just sincerely confused.
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