[PLUG] Sites aimed at fostering wiki CONTENT?
Richard Owlett
rowlett at cloud85.net
Fri Jan 6 14:22:39 UTC 2017
I have asked many questions (some odd;) and have received much
useful feedback.
Some have suggested creating or adding to wiki pages.
For two reasons I hesitate to create/edit a page on an
established wiki (e.g. wiki.debian.org):
1. The strong possibility I could have my facts wrong. There have
been cases where I could demonstrate current wiki content was
wrong and have been chided for not changing it myself - it being
a wiki after all. I did not know the correct information &/or
could not see replacing known bad with something with other
unknown errors.
2. As to creating new content, I have atypical perspectives.
During the development of content I would need feed back but a
traditional established wiki is open for modification by the
general public. Almost by definition they would edit to conform
to that divergent view.
I do not have the resources nor expertise to create or administer
such a site.
Characteristics of such a site (roughly in order of importance):
1. ONLY the author of a page has write access to the page content.
2. there be some means for publicly readable comments on the
content.
3. the content should probably be open indexing by search engines.
4. if possible it should be flagged to not be archived by sites
such as
http://archive.org as one of the goals is to limit the
perpetuation of
erroneous "facts".
Comments/suggestions?
TIA
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