[Mailman-Developers] GNU Mailman Site Redesign

[Barry Warsaw]

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On Apr 20, 2008, at 6:27 PM, Satoshi Tanabe wrote:
>>
>> Maybe not though.  Ideally, most of the www content really could  
>> live on
>> the wiki.  We'd lose the mirrors, but I'm not really sure how much  
>> value
>> there is in them anyway.  Radical thought: with a front page we can  
>> better
>> design, and pages we can lock down from editing, can www be  
>> completely wiki?
>
> I'm not really sure how much benefit we get by making the site 100%
> wiki... (unless we create the Mailman Encyclopedia or something of
> that sort.)  I see the benefit in the documentation and QandA part
> (because people can constantly improve and add contents to them), but
> other than that, wouldn't static HTML (plus links to those Wiki pages)
> do the job? Wikis are nice, but at the same time it seems to create
> otherwise unnecessary management issues (spamming, user accounts,
> etc).
>
> What do you think?

The real benefit of a wiki is that the community can really  
participate in its improvement and upkeep.

- -Barry

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