Re: Pulling in existing documents

On Sun, 7 Mar 2004, Shashank Sharma wrote:

> I agree. But I also feel that if articles and content
> are already on the net, why clutter out wiki with it.
> I mean some articles which are really helpful and
> would benefit ppl are fine.

	I wouldn't call it clutter at all.  One of the keys to the LQ wiki 
is collaboration.  Bringing in an article from somewhere else on the net 
will allow an LQ wiki users to contribute to and improve the article in 
question.

> > But then comes the issue: Who decides what articles
> are fine and what not? I mean, I might find some
> article on boot managers good and someone else on
> IPTABLES. 

	I'd say the question you should ask is, "will this article benefit 
the Linux community".

> So, I guess that maybe we should just have one
> section: LINKS to stuff on the net.

	The problem is that links turn into 404, sites go down, etc.  This 
also does not allow for the aforementioned collaboration.

--jeremy