Re: [iPAQ] IPMASQ howto

On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Carl Worth wrote:
> PS. I'm glad to see the Wiki pages getting used so well. But there is
> now a slight splintering problem. The IPMASQ howto in wiki is a useful
> addition to the PPP Howto on handhelds.org, (that's not under Wiki).
>
> The problem comes if a user browses to handhelds.org and looks at the
> PPP Howto, then there will be no pointer to the IPMasqHowto in Wiki.
>
> What it comes down to is that we are maintaining two separate trees of
> information on the web. There are a couple of ways to fix this:
>
> 1) Move anything appropriate, (like the PPP HowTo), off of
> main handhelds.org and into Wiki.
>
> 2) Use Wiki as sort of a refining area and move things back
> into main handhelds after they are considered "complete" or
> "official". (This idea was proposed by nikos).
>
> I prefer #1 as I think there is too much manual maintenance involved
> in #2, while it's easy to let Wiki just maintain itself automatically,
> (the power of collaboration).
>
> Any thoughts?

How about a little of both. Put both version in the wiki, make one copy the
official copy and the other a work-in-progress, please update, whatever
copy. Only let authorized people update the Official copies, let everyone update
the other copy.

This way, all FAQ/HOWTO stuff is funneled through the wiki, and is in one place,
not two (well, it's still in two places, but it's closer together and easier to
reference from each other)...

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