From dtucker at zip.com.au Thu Oct 27 22:57:22 2005 From: dtucker at zip.com.au (Darren Tucker) Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 22:57:22 +1000 Subject: [portawiki-discuss] Testing to portawiki-discuss Message-ID: <4360CEB2.80008@zip.com.au> -- Darren Tucker (dtucker at zip.com.au) GPG key 8FF4FA69 / D9A3 86E9 7EEE AF4B B2D4 37C9 C982 80C7 8FF4 FA69 Good judgement comes with experience. Unfortunately, the experience usually comes from bad judgement. From dtucker at zip.com.au Fri Oct 28 18:20:52 2005 From: dtucker at zip.com.au (Darren Tucker) Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 18:20:52 +1000 Subject: [portawiki-discuss] PortaWiki - set up by Stewart In-Reply-To: <1130449956.2782.68.camel@albus.bitbike.com> References: <4360CF17.7090507@zip.com.au> <1130449956.2782.68.camel@albus.bitbike.com> Message-ID: <4361DF64.6010409@zip.com.au> Arjen Lentz wrote: > I was actually going to suggest to not do this ;-) > "yet another mailing list" is a pest for many people. > And AFAICS, most msgs we've exchanged are basically about being > uncertain about whether/how to put things in the wiki, and the simple > answer there is "just do it". It's just about becoming more comfortable > with the wiki-way of maintaining content. "just another mailing list" is a feature for me, not a bug since it means I can treat it the same way as all the others I participate in. > Also, MediaWiki itself actually has facilities for meta-discussions, > you'll see the "Discussion" tab at the top. And users can set up a > "Watch" on specific pages so they get notified when stuff changes. A partial compromise is easy: make portawiki-discuss "watch" that page. -- Darren Tucker (dtucker at zip.com.au) GPG key 8FF4FA69 / D9A3 86E9 7EEE AF4B B2D4 37C9 C982 80C7 8FF4 FA69 Good judgement comes with experience. Unfortunately, the experience usually comes from bad judgement.