Talk:Manual of Style: Difference between revisions
Latest comment: 11 May by Sshine in topic Suggestion: Remove nonsensical warning about copyright violations from style manual
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:Interesting, maybe we can decide to delete this sentence in the next wiki-meeting or exchange it with something like "It is recommended that editors only contribute to one wiki at a time to avoid accidentally violating style guides and structuring." [[User:Klinger|Klinger]] ([[User talk:Klinger|talk]]) 18:12, 11 March 2025 (UTC) | :Interesting, maybe we can decide to delete this sentence in the next wiki-meeting or exchange it with something like "It is recommended that editors only contribute to one wiki at a time to avoid accidentally violating style guides and structuring." [[User:Klinger|Klinger]] ([[User talk:Klinger|talk]]) 18:12, 11 March 2025 (UTC) | ||
::It seems like the opinion is that one should not contribute to both wikis, and the reasoning can be applied and modified later, which suggests to me that either the incentive is either not rational, or not directly honest. If I am to speculate, I believe that the desire is to let the unofficial wiki gradually deprecate into oblivion, so that it can be declared dead. And if we can encourage or incentivize that to happen sooner rather than later, that is a good thing. I believe this is based on wishful thinking and not an actual assessment of the negative impact on the availability of Nix documentation to the wider ecosystem. [[User:Sshine|Sshine]] ([[User talk:Sshine|talk]]) 14:06, 11 May 2025 (UTC) | |||
== Add guidelines for common Infoboxes == | == Add guidelines for common Infoboxes == | ||
Revision as of 14:06, 11 May 2025
Suggestion: Remove nonsensical warning about copyright violations from style manual
How is the following section a reflection on style?
- Contribution recommendation: It is recommended that editors only contribute to one wiki at a time to ensure they do not inadvertently violate the copyright policies of the wikis they edit.
And what copyright policies might be violated? The official NixOS wiki is already a copy of the unofficial NixOS wiki which is licensed under MIT, and the official NixOS wiki is also licensed under MIT. So I can't see what copyright policies are being violated that weren't violated in the creation of the wiki. -- Sshine (talk) 20:51, 6 March 2025 (UTC)
- Interesting, maybe we can decide to delete this sentence in the next wiki-meeting or exchange it with something like "It is recommended that editors only contribute to one wiki at a time to avoid accidentally violating style guides and structuring." Klinger (talk) 18:12, 11 March 2025 (UTC)
- It seems like the opinion is that one should not contribute to both wikis, and the reasoning can be applied and modified later, which suggests to me that either the incentive is either not rational, or not directly honest. If I am to speculate, I believe that the desire is to let the unofficial wiki gradually deprecate into oblivion, so that it can be declared dead. And if we can encourage or incentivize that to happen sooner rather than later, that is a good thing. I believe this is based on wishful thinking and not an actual assessment of the negative impact on the availability of Nix documentation to the wider ecosystem. Sshine (talk) 14:06, 11 May 2025 (UTC)
Add guidelines for common Infoboxes
There are a couple of common infoboxes used on wiki pages.
We could also bootstrap a new infobox for nixos-version-specific infos (that could be discarded once the nixos version becomes very old). Pogobanane (talk) 08:10, 26 October 2024 (UTC)
- Actually this goes into Help:Template Pogobanane (talk) 08:21, 26 October 2024 (UTC)
- Resolved: Linked Help:Template in this Manual of Style. Pogobanane (talk) 08:28, 26 October 2024 (UTC)