[Python-Dev] Moving the developer docs? (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Thu Sep 23 16:56:19 CEST 2010

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 7:47 AM, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:

Am 23.09.2010 16:33, schrieb Barry Warsaw:

On Sep 23, 2010, at 10:16 AM, R. David Murray wrote:

I'd much rather edit rst files than futz with a web interface when editing docs.  The wiki also somehow feels "less official". There are dvcs-backed wikis, for example: https://launchpad.net/wikkid :) I don't agree that the wiki feels less official, or perhaps that it should feel any less official.  It's an important source of Pythonic information, and to me it feels much more inclusive and open. This impression comes along with the authority of potential authors. If only the release manager can write a document, it is very official. If any committer can write, but nobody else, it feels less officical. If anybody could modify the document, it's even less official. Since anybody can write to the Python wiki, it feels not very official. It's the same reason why people often trust Wikipedia less than a printed encyclopedia.

I want to believe your theory (since I also have a feeling that some wiki pages feel less trustworthy than others) but my own use of Wikipedia makes me skeptical that this is all there is -- on many pages on important topics you can clearly tell that a lot of effort went into the article, and then I trust it more. On other places you can tell that almost nobody cared. But I never look at the names of the authors.

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