<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Sean Moss-Pultz <<a href="mailto:sean@openmoko.com">sean@openmoko.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">Jay Vaughan wrote:<br>
>> This stood out for me "The tangled pile of mostly outdated and<br>
>> incomplete documentation at the OpenMoko wiki..."<br>
>> Is this an accurate evaluation of the wiki ?<br>
>> If so, what can we do to fix it up, how do we identify old content<br>
>> and schedule it for updating?<br>
><br>
><br>
> I think, personally, its time for a 3rd-party site not related to<br>
> OpenMoko to pick up the slack here. So much stuff happens too quickly<br>
> for people who /should/ be updating the wiki to feel like its<br>
> productive to do so ..<br>
><br>
> What I would like to see is something like an "<a href="http://mokofanboix.org" target="_blank">mokofanboix.org</a>"<br>
> website come up that has the following:<br>
><br>
> - Daily blog news akin to the good ol' slashdot, of news from the<br>
> openmoko scene, gleaned from careful inspection of the mailing lists,<br>
> of IRC, of the codebase, of code delta's, etc.<br>
><br>
> - Public free Repository of all the latest and greatest 'cool apps'<br>
> found for OpenMoko<br>
><br>
> - Public forum for discussion of the news.<br>
><br>
> This is, of course, sorta what we've got with things like<br>
> <a href="http://planet.openmoko.org" target="_blank">planet.openmoko.org</a> (which I check daily), combined with the<br>
> Scaredycat repo's and other such things, but .. for newcomers .. I<br>
> don't think any of this is as easily approachable as it would be if it<br>
> were all put under a single umbrella that is a bit more of an<br>
> 'openmoko pop culture' site than what we've got right now ..<br>
<br>
Jay<br>
<br>
</div></div>These are all great ideas and would be very helpful for us. We are a<br>
small company. And really try to focus all we can on our products.<br>
Community help to make these more approachable is something that would<br>
make us all very grateful.<br>
<br>
Let me know if there is anything specific you think we (Openmoko) could<br>
do to help get this all started.<br>
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-Sean<br>
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</div></div></blockquote><div><br>My take on the problem is that if a new user searches for information, and finds something promising but it turns out to be wrong, or out of date, they will probably not update it.<br>Once they find the information they may not remember (or be inclined) to go back and update it.<br>
<br>What new user is going to start off by editing an article about stuff they don't know?<br><br>Perhaps one method of identifying information, it to have a simple way to flagging an article as 'needs checking'.<br>
Wiki moderators and the community at large could focus their efforts there.<br><br>MJ<br> </div></div><br></div>