Re: Updating http://history.perl.org/PerlTimeline.html

On Apr 26, 2008, at 10:40 PM, Andy Lester wrote:
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> On Apr 26, 2008, at 10:00 PM, Elaine Ashton wrote:
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>> throwing onto some damn wiki and hoping someone else will do the  
>> work for you.
>
>
> Not to speak for Shlomi, but I suspect his purpose of putting  
> something on a wiki isn't to get other people to do the work for  
> him, but to allow others to work on it.  Makes it much easier to  
> let things be maintained rather than having something lie fallow  
> for six years.
>

To be clear, the wiki proposal was mine (for better or worse) not  
Shlomi's.  Shlomi responded lukewarmly toward the proposal.
     http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.advocacy/2008/04/msg2404.html

The value I see in wikis is not that hundreds of people can edit  
(i.e. regress a document toward the mean), but that some can walk  
away when they are done editing.

Chris