[Python-ideas] Encouraging more use of the Python wiki

[Wes Turner]

On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 1:31 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

>
> An early Python contributor, Ken Manheimer, described the necessary
> activity as "wiki gardening". We need more wiki gardeners, people who have
> an eye for the big picture and actively edit content, not just guards who
> passively judge contribute proposed changes (even that's also needed --
> Python is sufficiently well-known that the wiki would attract a lot of spam
> and occasional vandalism if it was completely open).
>
>
The edx wiki seems to avoid many of these challenges.
https://github.com/edx/edx-platform/wiki/How-to-Rebase-a-Pull-Request

Other than versioning docs/ with the code and encouraging helpful community
members to provide a valuable service, IDK of any other good solutions.

As far as change control, pull requests (of the wiki branch) seem to work
great for just me.
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