[Python-Dev] Python wiki (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Fri Sep 24 00:27:39 CEST 2010

On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 4:52 AM, <skip at pobox.com> wrote:

 Antoine> Given that few or none of us seem to (want to) actively  Antoine> contribute to the wiki, I'm afraid python-dev is not the place  Antoine> to ask.  Perhaps a call should be issued on c.l.py ... It would be nice if you could actually send messages to the people who do actually update wiki content.  Unfortunately, without donning my cape and blue tights, then digging into the users files on the wiki there's no real way to do that.

That's a good point actually... why isn't there a pydotorg-wiki-sig? (Aside from the obvious point of nobody ever asking for one).

I must admit, that the various things I've thrown on there myself have been pretty much fire-and-forget. Without anyone that feels like they collectively "own" the wiki, the much needed pruning never happens.

With an admin team behind it, you can also make more use of ACLs to flag certain parts of the wiki as "official" by making them only editable by certain people (e.g. only devs, only the triage team, only the wiki admins). But keeping those user lists up to date is itself something that requires a strong wiki admin team.

Cheers, Nick.

-- Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia

More information about the Python-Dev mailing list