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

[Sebastian Menge]

Am Mon, 23 Jul 2007 21:33:02 +1000 schrieb John Beckett:
> Do we (the regulars here) want to keep all the comments as a historical
> record? Do we want to delete them all? Or move them to the talk pages?
> Or delete some of them? Do we keep the author names and dates? Or delete
> them?

I wrote something on this earlier: Two things:
1) content first!. "me too" "this was very helpful" is no _real_ content.
2) subjective opinions make the thing more friendly. I liked to join a 
community where people help each other, these "thanks for the great tip, 
saved tons of typing"-messages are very kind. 

My conclusion: delete them and establish a new and fresh tone on the wiki.
A rating system can replace the "i like that tip"-messages.

> I've tried to put my opinions in a brief yet informative way, so others
> can make up their minds on what to do. My aim is provide information
> that editors may find helpful, while encouraging them to not waste time

I like the texts. Perhaps a bit more structure would be helpful, eg. 
Title_guidelines is long and hard to read, if you have not a lot of time.

Comment_guidelines is very good. So is Discussion_guidelines.

All in all great job John :-) especially to use several small pages, each 
for one topic, thats easy to extend/maintain.

I wrote a page "Guidelines" as a starting point for all these.

I'd like to see a quick reference, something one can skim quickly. Do we 
have something like that already? In the beginnig i did something on 
these things, but i forgot what :-)

> Ipkiss has done a lot of editing recently, and I'm hoping he will offer
> an opinion on the guidelines. He has already suggested in
> 'Forum:Template for duplicates' that the guidelines should have a
> section on useful templates, particularly the Script template. I'm
> aiming to attend to that soon.

Great, is (s)he on the list already?

Sebastian.