Thread: Poll: Do you want to see Tablet School brought back as a section on maemo.org?
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2009-05-02 , 16:52
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This is all academic as I'll do the site elsewhere, but...


Originally Posted by Jaffa View Post
  • Because it's geared towards downloading applications, not embedding videos.
  • Because there's none of the workflow - nor the scope for it - that you want to ensure high quality tutorials which are well categorised.
  • Because it doesn't meet the desire that other people have that there's the option of a plain text transcription of the video, improvable and correctable by anyone (including its hiding if it's rubbish and written for the wrong level of user).
  • Because it's a midgard module and the number of people able to, or willing to, write or amend another is very very small.
1. It currently handles downloads, but the same format would IMHO be just as suitable for tutorials.

2. I don't know what you mean by "there's none of the workflow". Do you mean people wouldn't be able to publish instantly? Of course they wouldn't, that's the point.

3. I do not want to open up tutorials to be edited by all-comers. All-comers can submit stuff, but they should not be able to publish.

4. All I'm asking is the current module to be cloned and VERY small changes to be made (really just renaming the categories and replacing some of the page titles). If even that's not possible then forget I even mentioned the downloads option.


We can make the wiki look like however you want:
...but all viewers should be able to edit it?

If so, I'm not getting involved. I will not take part in a beginner's guide that allows everyone to edit, because that will almost certainly make the content unsuitable for beginners.

It's not just a problem of incompetent contributors, but disagreements between competent contributors over what is suitable for beginners and what isn't. Remember all those disagreements on ITT and across the Linux community about the ease of using command lines for example? Imagine stuff like that going on all the time...

Every group-driven process I've been involved in here on maemo.org has descended into bitter spats over nothing, usually because people have different ideas about what is acceptable to end users without technical knowledge. I'd expect them to continue if a beginner's guide had editing open to everyone.

I know some people would like wikis to take over from tightly-edited publications, but in the case of tutorials aimed at technophobes wikis are not a good way of doing things.
 

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