[p2p-research] P2P Foundation page Category:Commons has been changed by Mbauwens

[Michel Bauwens]

sorry alex,

but if one of you had simply said, we edited that page back, the discussion
would not arisen ...

I check wiki edits once a day in bloglines, today especially twice, and have
not seen the un-redirects of those pages,

as for the transclusion, again, since you only did it for one section where
it did not show a dysfunctionality in the new version, I just let it there,

but the general principle remains, are features freedoms and opportunities,
or imposed technocratic solutions which take more time and energy, and
exclude non-geeks from more participation ...

you think it "not a concern", but as you can witness, it is clearly a
concern to me if you impose me to check on manuals to do simple edits in a
page, so again: it IS a concern, not if it is free, but when it is
obligatory,

especially, I don't know why anyone in a p2p wiki would have the sole power
to impose the use of a particular technique, without discussion, we have
norms and rules concerning civility, a requirement concerning the quality of
content, but so far, no obliged technical rules,

again, I'm against imposing these unilaterally they should just be options
that people can use or not,

those that like manuals, by all means check them out and improve the wiki
with superior technical wizardry, but do not change the content so that
changes start requiring knowledge of that wizardry,

this seems common sense to me ...




On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 9:45 PM, Alex Rollin <alex.rollin at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > when an entry page is forced into a loop in a category page, no editing
> > whatsoever is possible ...
>
> This is patently not true Michel.   That page was edited.  Case
> closed.  It is a non-optimal practice anyways, and was willingly
> changed by Patrick once he saw the situation.  No one is defending the
> practice, merely explaining why it was attempted and how to fix it.
> You are the one interpreting as otherwise.
>
> As far as the Greyson material goes, on the edits I was correcting,
> when I first inserted the template, the text, except for the section
> headings was the same.  You can check the edit history if you like.
> You are over reacting about imposition.  I decided how to handle it.
> I fixed it for you.  I showed you how to fix it.  You can do it next
> time if you want to.  You can change it back.  I could edit it again.
> It's a wiki, you know?  The point is I'm not trying to 'NOT' put what
> you want on the Category page; I'm just doing it a little differently.
>  And contextually...more contextually, if you ask me.
>
> This practice of transclusion works for what is intended, even in this
> flare up as you struggle to understand how to use the new technology.
> I do defend the practice.  You will see more of it, in addition to the
> several examples I have sent to you in the last week.  Transclusion is
> useful.  If you read the LST and P2PStack Architecture document you
> will see that I even wrote down how contextual quotes are handled, as
> separate sections.  I didn't invent this.  The basic functionality
> comes with Mediawiki.  I think that means it is, you know, a wiki
> function.
>
> Here's a use case.  If you are writing something "about" James
> Greyson's 7 Switches, don't you think it would be neat if, since he
> only watches 2 pages, his user page and the 7 Switches page, that you
> could write your contextual piece "7 Switches and P2P Policy" within
> 'his' 7 Switches page?  Then he gets notified, can correct it, and
> work with you.  It's super cool, and better than the way you do it.
> All the 7 Switches stuff is all in one place, but can be used
> anywhere.  That's why it works.  I know a user has to learn a few new
> tags to use it, but, so what, not everyone is writing gigantic pages
> like us, so it just doesn't effect that many people, and really isn't
> a concern.
>
> A
>
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