On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 12:03 AM, Steve Bennett<stevagewp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 11:07 AM,
Chad<innocentkiller(a)gmail.com> wrote:
A lot of the docs have been written by people
other than developers,
Ever met a developer who likes writing doc? :)
Hehe, I've worked in IT for several years now. Nobody likes to :)
and a lot of
the docs have never been read by a developer. That being
said, using FlaggedRevs we might be able to deliver more solid docs
on
MW.org by flagging docs at like two levels. One could be like a basic
"has been looked over for glaring errors and basic readability" and
a second could be "has been thoroughly reviewed and is considered
the doc on the given subject."
Perhaps we could start by getting developers to thoroughly review documentation?
You're proposing a technical solution to a people problem. The problem
is not that the site can't display the fact that a developer vouches
for the quality of documentation. The problem is that there are no
processes for getting developers to review documentation and vouch for
it.
Steve
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I try to ensure my documentation is thorough as I write it. That being said,
there's still plenty out there that needs review. I'm just suggesting
FlaggedRevs
as a mechanism to aid in that.
To further expand on my original statements, I'm not suggesting the developers
are the only ones with in-depth knowledge of how Mediawiki works. There are
certainly other members of the community we can trust to handle this task as
well. I'm looking at this primarily as tools to aid in fixing a
problem. Of course
without work on part of document writers/reviewers, this won't go anywhere.
-Chad
-Chad