Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote:

> Don Stewart wrote:
>> For example, if all the haddocks on hackage.org were a wiki, and
>> interlinked, every single package author would benefit, as would all
>> users.
>
> You mean, everyone should be able to mess about with my documentation? This
> would be similar to give everyone commit rights to my repositories or allow
> everyone to edit the code of my published libraries. What is the good thing
> about that?

Well, it's excellent if you haven't written said documentation yet. ;)

But yes, the package author should have the last word about what goes in
and what does not. The goal is simply to drastically lower the bar of
participation.

Something like AnnoCPAN would be a good middle-ground here; i.e. differentiate between "official" package documentation and user annotations, but make them both visible.