[arch-general] Contributions to the wiki - Are user contributions a thing of the past?

[Jason Ryan]

On 23/08/17 at 08:54pm, David C. Rankin wrote:
>Archdevs,
>
>  When I see an wiki page that is unclear or could benefit from a small
>addition, for the past 7+ years I've tried to do my part, and I was happy to
>do so.
>
>  But, consistently, for the past year or so, any user contributions to the
>wiki are systematically struct from the pages.
>
>  The latest being a small addition to the multilib page to make clear that
>following repo addition and update you need to explicitly install the wanted
>multilib packages. Following the directions on the page as it exists gets you
>nowhere, but implies that it is all that needs to be done.
>
>  Again, as has been the form over the past year or, the additions are erased
>and a vague reference mentioning the additional steps are covered in an
>ancillary page is given as the reason.
>
Actually, the reason for rolling back the edits was much more clear:
the information is contained in a tip. Your examples were not adding
anything to the page other than character count.

>  As a P.E. and Attorney, I know documentation. I know when it's clear, and
>when it's not clear. If the point of the wiki is to provide clear information
>to users, then why are all improvements systematically struck?
>
>  Yes, brevity is a good thing, but not at the expense of clarity...
>
Lawyers are hardly known for either their brevity or their clarity.

>  Does Arch still want user contribution to the wiki? If so, systematically
>deleting the contributions that users take the time to make, isn't going to
>promote further contribution. Why bother, more than likely it will just be
>erased....

Contributions *are* welcome. That doesn't mean that they will
automatically be accepted. Acknowledging that a wiki is a collaborative
effort, and all that entails (often at the expense of individual egos),
is also a helpful quality to bring to the project.

/J

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