Forum Howtos

[Rich Johnson]

On Sunday 02 July 2006 11:42, Matthew East wrote:
> Hi,
>
> A big part of the wiki team's job should be to identify good howtos
> which are posted on the forum howto section and integrate them into the
> wiki. There is a lot of good material there that we can take advantage of.
>
> I added this some time ago as a section on the WikiToDo page. If you are
> interested in doing some of this, make sure that you get the author's
> permission before/soon after you do so.
I scour the forums a lot and contribute to both Ubuntu forums and Kubuntu 
forums. When I come across good information, I have been posting a comment in 
the thread along the lines of, "This is good info, could you please post this 
to the Ubuntu Wiki, and if you are uncomfortable with editing the wiki, upon 
your approval I would be more then happy to do so." Usually the creator will 
apply rather quickly and either post it, or say go ahead and post it. Now 
when we do this, is it OK to display the author of the tutorial, as I know it 
isn't in the Styling Documentation, and if so should we follow a certain 
guide in doing so.
> We have this section [1] which was intended to be an easy way for forum
> members to contribute to the wiki, but I have to say I don't think it
> has been working very well, and the best thing to do in my opinion is to
> concentrate on making contributing to the wiki easy for everyone. With
> this in mind the WikiGuide page should now be user friendly enough for
> all to read and start contributing, and a few weeks ago I adjusted the
> guide for forum users [2] accordingly.
>
> [1] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/forum
> [2] http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=81999
>
> So I think we can start getting rid of the forum section of the wiki (by
> merging all the material into the body of the wiki), and encourage forum
> members to contribute directly to the body of the wiki. What do others
> think?
+1 on removal from me. I think having everything in the body will hopefully 
avoid the duplication in projects/tutorials.
> Matt
Thanks Matt for this information, and upon acceptance I will continue going 
forward with telling forum contributors to post to the wiki.
-- 
Rich Johnson (nixternal)
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/nixternal
https://launchpad.net/people/nixternal
"The best thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do 
something stupid."
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