Fwd: [Wine] Re: The pros and cons of a wiki AppDB

[Ben Klein]

2009/3/9 David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>:
> 2009/3/8 James Mckenzie <jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net>:
>> David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote on March 8th:
>>>2009/3/8 James Mckenzie <jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net>:
>
>>>> Would you be willing to clean out the ash and trash that will show up with an open Wiki?
>
>>>I already said I would, yes - that the only reason for not just
>>>starting one is to avoid massive duplication of effort.
>
>> If we move to an open Wiki, be prepared to be very busy.  I've seen spambots get past most, if not all, of the verification systems and bomb away.  I've read where several systems had to shut them down for fear of being sued.  At the present time, we have verification for exactly that reason.  To keep the spam out and to pre-edit those entries that do not provide all of the information needed.
>
> I come from years of fighting vandals on Wikipedia. I know a thing or
> two about the field ...

AppDB is not an encyclopaedia.

> * Entries that do not provide all the information needed - that's
> quality control, which is part of the editing process.

Even the user you quoted from wine-users said a Wiki is not the way to
go. And the "problem" he's talking about is quality control - tighter
quality control than a Wiki can offer.

Regarding his form submission problem, it sounds like his browser was
(not so) helpfully filling in his old data into the form when it
loaded. I'm aware that AppDB and bugzilla have some interesting issues
with forwarding the user to the correct page after a form has been
submitted, but this would not have prevented him from submitting new
test data.