Wiki focus - user versus developer documentation

Marko Knöbl openmoko.marko at gmail.com
Thu Sep 4 11:56:29 CEST 2008


2008/8/31 Minh Ha Duong <haduong at centre-cired.fr>:
>> > Whom do you mean by "admins"? The wiki editors?
>>
>> As Cesar Eduardo Barros pointed out you may also be referring to the
>> System Administrators of the Wiki. I don't think that this change
>> would require much work by them: they only would have to do some
>> simple changes to three configuration files of the MediaWiki software.
>
> Yes I meant System Administrator, and I will try to avoid "admin" in the
> future. Sorry but I don't buy the rest of your argument, I am an old cynical
> fart. "Keep requests to the minimum" means zero requests to me. For example,
> the CSS can be fixed without System Administrator, so I think now that it is
> good enough, there are more urgent things to set straight on the wiki (and
> btw you can still use the monobook skin if you ask the URL properly, they did
> not remove the files from the server).
>
> Minh
>

Ok, I agree now that we shouldn't ask too much of the system
administrator at the moment. Can we do this later when there is less
work for him? - Or should we think of a different method of separating
the developer documentation from the user documentation?



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