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? :)
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.
That's true, but even if there is such a process, it would be helpful to
communicate to users whether or not the revision that they're looking at
has been reviewed.
I would support adding FlaggedRevs for the Manual: namespace.
--
Alex (wikipedia:en:User:Mr.Z-man)