Re: Advocacy wiki

On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 08:49:55AM +0100, Dave Page wrote:
> Magnus Hagander wrote:
> >>Trying to put together my "What's New in 8.3" lightning talk, I'm  
> >>surprised at the complete lack of advocacy resources. What little I  
> >>can find is spread all over the place.
> >>
> >>In order to make life easier for others who are creating PostgreSQL  
> >>presentations by providing links/copies of past presentations, as  
> >>well as useful images, etc. ISTM the best way to do this is with a wiki.
> >>
> >>So, should I setup some pages on the developer wiki for this, or  
> >>should we have a separate advocacy wiki? I'm leaning towards a  
> >>separate one so that anyone can add resources...
> >
> >
> >I'm not going to comment on the general need. but if we're going to do 
> >that then please don't use the dev one, even though i see others already 
> >use it for such stuff. we absolutely do not want even more stuff loading 
> >up that machine at the moment. It's bad enough having the dev wiki where 
> >it is.
> 
> It wasn't long ago that we 'rebranded' the developer wiki as a project 
> wiki specifically to allow Josh B. To use if for advocacy purposes - in 
> fact, the opening para now reads:
> 
> "Please note that this is a PostgreSQL developer resource for use by 
> people hacking the PostgreSQL source code or working on other areas of 
> the project such as advocacy or the websites."
> 
> I forget which list it was discussed on, but I'm pretty sure even you 
> thought it was the best idea.

Actually, at the time we were discussing either temporary or "just for
-advocacy internals". Maybe that's what's being referred to at this time,
in which case I'm fine with it. But I read this as information that's for
end-users as well, and we specifically said we don't want that on the wiki.
(It was for some reason discussed on -advocacy instead of -www :P)

Now, in general it seems that there is more and more info going on the wiki
that's intended for end-users. That wasn't the original itent, but if
that's what people want then so be it. But in that case, I'm very
uncomfortable with where and how the wiki is currently set up, and I think
that should be solved before we start moving in that direction in a more
official way.

//Magnus