WikiStyleGuide

[Adrian Buehlmann]

On 15.10.2010 13:29, Masklinn wrote:
> On 2010-10-14, at 22:09 , Adrian Buehlmann wrote:
>> On 14.10.2010 20:46, Matt Mackall wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 20:11 +0200, Adrian Buehlmann wrote:
>>>> On 14.10.2010 19:41, Matt Mackall wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 00:39 +0200, Adrian Buehlmann wrote:
>>>>>> Matt has created a new wiki page
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/WikiStyleGuide
>>>>>>
>>>>>> which mandates to use book capitalization for page and section titles.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Wikipedia capitalizes only the first character on page and section
>>>>>> titles (e.g. [1], see also [2]).
>>>>>
>>>>> I ACKed this suggestion on IRC yesterday. I presume you know where to
>>>>> find the edit button.
>>>> I'm certainly not going to interfere with you on that page. So no, I
>>>> won't edit that page.
>>> Huh. That's a rather un-wiki attitude.
>> No it isn't. The Mercurial wiki is special, in the sense that you are
>> the project lead.
>>
>> If a project lead creates a WikiStyleGuide, then that's certainly not a
>> normal wiki page.
> But the project lead is specifically telling you (and according to him already said it previously) that you're free to update the style guide if you feel the current one is incorrect, so what's the issue?

The issue is that editing a page while you are discussing it (and are
implicitly accused of having a content dispute about it -- see Nicolas
and mpm "You don't like it") *is* definitely un-wiki.

This is wiki 101 editing behavior.

The normal course of wiki action would be that the original author would
include the acked content if he agrees with it.

I'm definitely not free to edit WikiStyleGuide just like I feel. It is
quite obvious that mpm has very firm opinions about that page.

As for potential accusations for having brought up this on this list,
this is normal wiki behavior as well. Talk, if in doubt. It's even
suggested on WikiStyleGuide (which is good).

The very last thing wanted on a wiki is edit wars.

Furthermore, inviting someone to edit a page with "I presume you know
where to  find the edit button." isn't exactly affirmative.

But that's just a matter of style (bad style that is).

Another point I don't like is posting IRC logs. Even if it is just two
lines (which by the way would have looked a lot different if the next
line would have been posted as well. But well, I don't post IRC
conversations).