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: Noted. I'll add something about protected pages. We don't yet have documentation on the process for becoming a user with administrative rights, nor have we audited our current user lists to see if they still make sense. Would you be okay moving forward with this policy while we are still figuring that out? Once we do, we can update it with a link to the appropriate information. [[User:Ckoehler|Christie Koehler (ckoehler)]] ([[User talk:Ckoehler|talk]]) 16:26, 9 May 2014 (PDT) | : Noted. I'll add something about protected pages. We don't yet have documentation on the process for becoming a user with administrative rights, nor have we audited our current user lists to see if they still make sense. Would you be okay moving forward with this policy while we are still figuring that out? Once we do, we can update it with a link to the appropriate information. [[User:Ckoehler|Christie Koehler (ckoehler)]] ([[User talk:Ckoehler|talk]]) 16:26, 9 May 2014 (PDT) | ||
'''Gerv's comments:''' Firstly, thanks for taking this on. The wiki is a vital resource and it's great to see it getting love. Comments on this page: | |||
The word "comprehensive" is in the purpose. That would suggest that the wiki needs to contain information about everything. The use of the term "encyclopaedia" also suggests this. I think that's actually an anti-goal, and I suspect you do too - we have better places for some info, like SUMO or MDN. It also seems to suggest that if the wiki is missing information on some topic, there is an obligation on someone to provide that information, to achieve comprehensiveness. I'm not sure that's true either. | |||
An alternate take: I would define the purpose of the Mozilla wiki as: "A low-barrier-to-entry place for Mozillians to choose to store dynamic but long-term-relevant information about Mozilla products, initiatives and sub-projects." | |||
"Dynamic" is its distinctive over www.mozilla.org. "long-term-relevant" is its distinctive over IRC or Etherpad. The wiki fits into an important niche between the permanance of one and the real-time collaborativeness of the other. | |||
[[User:Gerv|Gerv]] ([[User talk:Gerv|talk]]) 05:51, 13 May 2014 (PDT) | |||