Re: Pulling in existing documents

 --- Jeremy <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.

Ok. That is a good perspective to look at.

> 
> > > 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".

Totally agree with you on that.

> 
> > 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

That's true. Keeping them here would ensure that they
last long enough for ppl to make use of them. That
makes things much easier Jeremy. 

-Shashank"LinuxLala"Sharma

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