[Vim-l] New guidelines (policies) for editing tips

[John Beckett]

Sebastian Menge wrote:
> I've tried to tidy up things a bit...

I like what you've done, although I couldn't resist tweaking the wording a
little.

> "Readers, Contributors, Editors". Is that ok?

Yes - good stuff. I hope to tweak it slightly in due course, in line with my
other message that we should explain a little more clearly the benefits of
making a talk page and registering an email address.

> Used ==In Short== ...

A good result. I think "In short" (which you used earlier) looks better than
"In Short" and I've changed it.

> I removed the things on "delete tips for old versions of vim"
> flag ... "obsolete since version xxx due to feature yyy"

OK, but prepare for an argument! Perhaps we should wait until we have some
concrete examples to discuss, but I would urge the deletion of almost all
tips that are ONLY useful for versions prior to 6.0.

Anyone using Vim before version 7.1 has a time bomb with regard to the
modeline security issue.

Maybe we need a category for obsolete tips, or possibly even a template to
insert yet another coloured box. Perhaps Category:OldVersion - you would
feel comfortable adding that to any tip that you think may be using old
stuff. Later, we could review tips in that category and decide if a tip
should be flagged as obsolete, or deleted, or whatever.

> I'm convinced that these things are most important
> for the success of the wiki.

Totally agree. I've put a lot of time into the guidelines in the hope that
they will help people from vim_use work efficiently. I plan to add a brief
intro to the wikitext rules.

John