[Foundation-l] Request for approval for a wiki for standards

Sat Jan 7 14:50:01 UTC 2006

Robert Scott Horning wrote:
> I believe that a wiki is an excellent method of collaborative writing, 
> including standards development.  Often when trying to develop a 
> standard you need to work on several parts of the standard 
> simultaneously, and having revision control and other feedback methods 
> found on MediaWiki software is going to be very useful.
> 
> As far as making a standard immutable, we already have page protection 
> once the standard has been put in place.  This is no different than 
> Wikisource where similar kinds of immutable documents already exist. 
> That would have to be a community decision as to if a certain page has a 
> "final" status and can't be changed any more.
> 
> More likely, you would have to have some sort of versioning of documents 
> anyway, where you would have a "frozen" official version and a draft 
> version that is still a work in progress.  We already have date 
> versioning in MediaWiki software anyway, so this is something that 
> doesn't even need extra development.

That's a fair point, thanks for the explanation.

Chris

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