[New-imc] everyone: OK to link newimc.indymedia to twiki NewImcHowTo and shorten newimc.indymedia?

[evan]

On Friday, February 28, 2003, at 09:30  PM, boud wrote:

> On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, mark burdett wrote:
>
>> sheesh how did this happen?
>
> mailman decided to renumber the new-imc archives. Subtract 1178 from a
> typical (old) new-imc archive message number and chances are you'll be
> OK.  i sent a "help - will this happen often?" question to listwork
> but it went unnoticed. They've got a huge task, so i didn't
> insist. Now it seems probably safer to hope they don't
> notice or everything will have to be reverted... Don't know if this
> means that 1178 old messages were deleted or not...

Somebody asked for an email to be removed from the archive and the 
person who did it made a mistake when the removed the emails. We have a 
procedure for listwork which explains how to delete messages without 
messing up the archives but it's not always followed.

In general i think it's better to take the content from the lists and 
post them as a page on the wiki. That way things can be changed and 
updated directly.


>> what i'd prefer to do is link to the wiki.
>> thus newimc.indy would become a much shorter page.

I also support links to the wiki pages for the content. Although still 
having newimc.indymedia.org with it's form is good because it's easy to 
find and isn't buried in the wiki.

> AFAIR, nobody in the new-imc working group has made positive, negative
> or even neutral comments on
> http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Global/NewImcHowTo
> but i think that if there was any serious problem, some of the lurkers
> would have spoken up.

I didn't notice it until just now. Perhaps it wasn't properly 
announced. I think we should definitely work on improving the new-imc 
documentation including getting testimonials from existing imc's about 
how they started and what worked. With the wiki we aren't dependent on 
techies doing all of the publishing. The process becomes much more open.

> Anybody who wishes to comment or object: please remember that mark is
> not subscribed to new-imc, so please include
> a cc: to (mark at indymedia.org).
>
>> i can add the various translations to wiki when i do that.
>
> The great thing about wiki is that others can add them too...

Open publishing for documentation. :)

in solidarity,
evan