Re: [piecepack] publishing modified piecepack games on the wiki

[Jessica Eccles <jade@...>]

I'm happy to draft up a rough guideline for editing the wiki (as a
starting point for discussion in January). I don't see why we shouldn't
be able to come to a consensus; a smaller active community actually
makes that easier.

cheers
 - Jessica

On 21/12/16 14:16, Ron Hale-Evans rwhe@... [piecepack] wrote:
> FYI, most open source projects track changes and old versions of files in a
> version control system like Github. Our wiki is peculiar in a couple of
> different ways. First, if you replace or delete a file that has been
> uploaded to the wiki (as opposed to having been linked to), that file POOF!
> vanishes. Maybe it's in the Internet Archive; I haven't checked. Second,
> OddMuse (our wiki software) only tracks six months' worth of changes.
>
> Please develop a non-destructive policy for making changes, especially
> deleting files. Thanks.
>
> Ron
>
> On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 4:55 PM, 'Daniel Ajoy' da.ajoy@...
> [piecepack] <piecepack@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Chris,
> >
> > On Tue, 20 Dec 2016 19:45:24 -0500, Chris Sakkas sanglorian@...
> > [piecepack] <piecepack@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> >
> > > While it's true that people don't need to ask permission to edit
> > particular pages of a wiki, all successful wikis have rules and guidelines
> >
> > ... that develop over time when there is a large group of contributors
> > involved. That is not the case here.
> >
> > > - thank you for asking, Jessica, so that people could decide upon the
> > rules and guidelines.
> >
> > Don't expect other people to decide upon rules. The chances of that
> > happening in this case are close to 0%.
> >
> > Daniel
> >
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