WikiStyleGuide

Adrian Buehlmann adrian at cadifra.com
Thu Oct 14 03:33:46 CDT 2010


On 14.10.2010 10:09, Nicolas Dumazet wrote:
> 2010/10/14 Adrian Buehlmann <adrian at cadifra.com>:
>> On 14.10.2010 03:06, Nicolas Dumazet wrote:
>>> 2010/10/14 Adrian Buehlmann <adrian at cadifra.com>:
>>>> I'd propose to use Wikipedia page and section capitalization as well (so
>>>> we can reuse habits :).
>>>
>>> Personally, I do not care. Wikipedia has a lot of issues, too, and
>>> nothing forces us to import those habits.
>>
>> But why forcing a *different* standard on users? Below you even say you
>> don't care (which puzzles me why you post on this thread, but well...).
>>
>> There are a lot of people which are used to Wikipedia's style. It *is*
>> already a standard elsewhere - like it or not.
> 
> I used to be an admin/sysop on the French Wikipedia, I very well know
> the style guidelines and various rules overthere. I also know that the
> state of things is just the result of time-consuming and slow,
> pointless discussions: lot of "experts" trying to explain to others
> which convention is the best.

Ok. I see. I don't think discussions are pointless. But well. Experts
everywhere :)

I happen to be an admin on the English Wikipedia. Though not active any
more.

Editing wikis is tedious, yes. Finding consensus about styles and rules
even more. But I don't think we have such a problem on the Mercurial wiki.

> In reality "style" is very abstract and human mind is flexible. I
> contribute every day to three different projects, all of three have
> different Python coding styles: I'm still alive.

..

> My point is just to note that following Wikipedia style just because
> it's Wikipedia is not a good reason. We should use whichever style is
> best for us.

Ok. Here we disagree. Wikipedia is a well known and a very big wiki. It
has thus already set a standard. So let's use it.

I still don't get your point though. What is your reasoning for having a
*different* (other than being frustrated about fr.wikipedia :).

> To me, writing a style guideline does not sound like a funny task. I
> was just glad and grateful that someone actually took the time to
> write something.
> I am sorry, maybe it's me, my English and my jetlag, but I felt that
> complaining over such style detail was unnecessarily pointy. Feel free
> to ignore me, enforcing [whichever] style sounds OK to me, let's all
> be happy.

Oh. I complained? Funny.

I just proposed to use another, already established, well known
standard. BTW, lot's of pages on the Mercurial wiki already use it
(which would be another reason to keep it).




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