On Friday 13 July 2007, Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:
claus.reinke:
personally, i tend to be more willing to answer questions on the list than to fiddle with wiki markup and conventions, but there is no reason why people who are happier with wiki editing cannot extract content from list answers to the wiki, especially if its a faq answer rather than a research result.
I've got a few tools that make wiki editing easier (shortcuts to open up a new wiki page for editing in vim, syntax highlighting, console access). These make wiki editing roughly as cheap as composing an email.
I tried an experiment this week of just taking someone's post (Conor's idiom brackets), and putting directly on the wiki first, then letting the author know that's happened.
How do people feel about allowing posts in -cafe to be placed on the wiki, without extensive prior negotiation?
Well, anything /I/ write is OK. . .
What copyright do -cafe@ posts have?
Legally? I'd imagine it's pretty restrictive; morally, I think we should encourage people to wave whatever rights they have (like with the wiki).
If there was a rough consensus that this is ok, we could probably get a lot more material directly on the wiki, since I for one would act first, putting some interesting Clause Reinke posts there semi-verbatim, rather than pondering whether to write an email to the author to seek permission, or cojole them into doing it.
Should we feel free to put mailing list material onto the wiki?
We should. We may not, yet, but that should change. Jonathan Cast http://sourceforge.net/projects/fid-core http://sourceforge.net/projects/fid-emacs