Re: [Quantlib-dev] [Quantlib-users] Which wiki?

[Joseph W. <jo...@gn...>]

=E5=9C=A8 Friday 13 July 2007 10:26:43=EF=BC=8CLuigi Ballabio =E5=86=99=E9=
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I've also been slow.  I've started working in New York City, and there has=
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been a lot of slowness due to moving up here.  In particular, the machine=20
that I was developing QuantLib with is still in Texas, and stopped working.=
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I've waiting for a new desktop to show up here.

> Also, I would keep this wiki not publicly writable: write access
> would be given freely to those who are willing to contribute. It might
> be a minor road block; however, the point of such a wiki would not just
> be to remain spam-free, but that the code snippets actually work.
> Signing up for contributing is a way to show that one takes
> responsibility for that.

That makes sense.

The wikiversity page was cut and paste from the QuantLib GNA wiki, and alot=
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it doesn't make any sense.  One problem that I've run into wiki's is to hav=
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markers that distinguish between "levels of reliability" (i.e. what is a=20
draft and what has been reviewed).  Having two wikis (one open and unreliab=
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> 1) The "Add your name to QuantLib/Developer pool" link at the top of the
> page is kind of misleading. We welcome people willing to contribute, but
> one's chances to do so are not going to increase by getting an account
> on Wikiversity and adding one's name to a wiki page whose existence the
> QuantLib administrators were not aware of.

I'll change that this evening. =20

> 2) in which way exactly has the Globewide Network Academy "committed
> significant resources to the development of this library"?

That statement got cut and paste from the GNA wiki, and I'll get rid of it=
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this evening.  It sort of made sense when it was on the GNA wiki since=20
hosting a wiki is non-trivial and while the wiki was on a machine that GNA=
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bought and paid for, putting the label there made some sense. =20

Right now, I'm trying (without much success) to fold GNA work into the over=
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Wikiversity effort, and if wikiversity supports the wiki, that statement=20
doesn't make any sense at all, since part of the purpose of moving things=20
into the wikiversity is so I don't end up spending a lot of time fighting=20
spammers. :-( :-( :-(

There is a general problem with open projects that the advantage of wikis i=
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that the barrier to getting something useful done starts low, but as an=20
organization progresses it has more structure and more structure makes it=20
more difficult for newbies to participate.  I'm sort of running into that=20
problem with wikiversity since to figure what to do, I'm having to spend ti=
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thinking about politics and management, and I'd really like to minimize the=
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time needed to do that.

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Code Janitor - QuantLib
http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/User:Roadrunner