On Fri, Jul 09, 2010 at 05:24:02PM -0500, Aaron Faanes wrote:
I think what I'm looking for is, honestly, permission to do work.
I
know Eric mentioned to "be bold" and that edits can be reverted, so
let me explain: I feel, however wrongly it may be, that the Fedora
Wiki has a much stronger sense of "ownership" than other wikis.
There's also a much larger variance between types of content, so as an
editor, I don't know what's intentional (like style or tone or layout)
and what's simply not touched up. I feel like a mentor would help make
these no-go- or draft-first-zones more obvious, and perhaps make the
avenues for making changes more clear. Maybe I just need to speak up
more in #fedora-docs ;)
This happens a lot. It happens a lot to me, too.
One thing that might be helpful is to create a subpage of your user page
and list pages that you would like to work on, and reasons why you
haven't yet (would like to ask the page editor what the heck is going
on, etc.). Then, immediately, send mail to the editor. :)
Long ago we discussed page maintainership and providing a template for
people to easily say "I 'own' this page, please ask me about huge
changes." I (and a few others) was against it (I think? ;) ) because
there shouldn't be a clear line of ownership for wiki pages, except user
pages, because it's *everybody's* wiki.
So. If you're worried that you might upset somebody, ask the editor, and
make a note of it somewhere. If you're not, fix it anyway. Consider this
a blanket permission for everybody.
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