On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Karsten Wade <kwade(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: The style guide lives here for now: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Help:Style_guide Just a random thought: It'd be cool if these "wish list" or a "request for editor" items lived somewhere on the wiki. I know there's a trac instance, but I think that's a little more formal than what I'm thinking about... I'm thinking that there could be a page on the wiki for people can post requests for editors. They could request content creations, wikifying a page, prettying up a proposal, proofreading, or so forth. Other viewers could comment on other requests: it'd just be a wiki page, so it'd be fluid how the format would work. It would be this asynchronous, open-ended confluence between users of the wiki and the editors. I think we'd be even better served by such a feature than Wikipedia is served with their village pump, since our wiki is used and edited by a broader range of tasks (such as FAQs, policies, proposals, etc.). It'd provide a means for people to define how they want a document edited without being too heavy-handed or formal. Right now, a lot of the proposals, the drafts, etc. are essentially hands-off for revision since editors don't want to break people's proposals. If we provided a wish list, then people can request the level of collaboration that they want: revising them, wikifying them, prettfiying them, without affecting their content. I think that it'd give a more fulfilling and more lively experience regarding wiki contributions. Instead of editing a random page or template, you can work on things that people have requested - this fulfillment is why I've enjoyed doing the QA stuff as much as I have. This list streamlines that process; instead of lurking in QA mailing lists, the wiki pump serves as an invitation for new contributors to get involved. Finally, I think a pump or wish list or request list becomes an ear to the users of the wiki community. We can see what bugs people, and what doesn't, by what kinds of requests they make. I'd be willing to write up a sample draft for this page, if it seems like an interesting idea. -- Aaron Faanes

On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 10:29 PM, Karsten Wade <kwade(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: Here's an idea of what it could be like: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Dafrito/Wiki_Request_List It should have lots of transparency. Lots of discussion can take place through mailing lists, but things should try to make their way (through links, at least) back to the wiki. This lets tasks get picked up and dropped with minimal disruption. Another idea is to encourage collaboration. Encouraging comments by others, having discussion be in a central place as possible maximizes collaboration. This might get noisy if we got busy, but I think we could cross that bridge when we get to it. At the very least, this page would allow collaborators to coordinate their personal to-dos and things-that-bug-them. -- Aaron Faanes