From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from www.viadmin.org ([195.145.128.101]) by mail.linuxtv.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MoYXx-00063b-MB for linux-dvb@linuxtv.org; Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:10:26 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by www.viadmin.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C793154DA for ; Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:09:51 +0200 (CEST) Received: from www.viadmin.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (www.viadmin.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id k9LlfX5KfODv for ; Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:09:41 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:09:41 +0200 From: "H. Langos" To: linux-dvb@linuxtv.org Message-ID: <20090918080941.GA15590@www.viadmin.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Subject: [linux-dvb] Linuxtv wiki needs email notification/more email-ready users Reply-To: linux-media@vger.kernel.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-dvb-bounces@linuxtv.org Errors-To: linux-dvb-bounces+mchehab=infradead.org@linuxtv.org List-ID: Hi there, after a while I decided to come back to the linuxtv wiki to finish organizing the bazillion dvb-t usb devices in a way that helps a) normal users to find out if a certain device is supported and b) developers to update information on the drivers they manage. Some preview of this can be seen on my playground page: http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/HLPlayground2 As this is a more complicated way of storing the information than just plain tables, I'd like to keep an eye on changes. Not because of fear of vandalisim but because changes to the templates/date potentially have effects on a lot of pages. There are some people who day by day put a lot of effort and work into the wiki and I'd like to thank them all for their continuing effort. I myself have only occasionaly time to update information there and I miss a lot of changes, even to the pages I watch, because the "watchlist" and "recent cahnges" reaches only seven days back. Manually going through the pages on my watchlist (currently 57) is not what I'd call good use of resources. It would be great if it was possible to get (immediate/daily/weekly?) change notifications by email in order not to lose track of what is happening to the pages that I care about. (I bet this is standard functionality of mediawiki or at least one of the more common extentions.) Also I'd like to encourage new and existing users to add their email address to their profile AND to check the "Enable e-mail from other users" box. Maybe we could change the default to enable that box? That way it is possible to ask for missing details if somebody adds a new device, or to send hints if somebody writes in an article that a certain device doesn't work. Or to simply write a short note when removing some information like "Hey dude, I just removed some information that you added to article X because it is already contained in article Y. Instead I've added a link to Y. Thank you for your help and keep up the good work!..." Also developers could ask people who are interested in a device's driver to check out a new version as soon as it is ready. All in all it would improve the user experience and the quality of information on the wiki as feedback would not have to go through the "discussion" pages. I went that way when talking to some other wiki admins about my efforts to unify the usb dvb-t data and the experience shows that wiki's are not a good medium for serious discussions. cheers -henrik _______________________________________________ linux-dvb users mailing list For V4L/DVB development, please use instead linux-media@vger.kernel.org linux-dvb@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb