From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,b90e27a4ff8c866c X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!r9g2000yqa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Ludovic Brenta Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada in Denmark and a Wiki article Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 08:49:48 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <4aa4f403$0$283$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <4aa5185d$0$286$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: 153.98.68.197 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1252338589 21207 127.0.0.1 (7 Sep 2009 15:49:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 15:49:49 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: r9g2000yqa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=153.98.68.197; posting-account=pcLQNgkAAAD9TrXkhkIgiY6-MDtJjIlC User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:8212 Date: 2009-09-07T08:49:48-07:00 List-Id: Thomas L=F8cke wrote on comp.lang.ada: > Ludovic Brenta wrote: > > your nice page about Vectors is relevant to users of Ada outside > > Denmark and is written in English, so I think this page should be in > > the Ada Programming wikibook. > > When we planned the new website, we did discuss whether a new wiki was > necessary or if we should just link directly to, for example, the Ada > Programming wikibook, but we decided on going with our own, as we wanted > freedom to do whatever we liked, and we guessed (maybe wrongly) that > such freedom would not be possible, Yes, you guessed wrongly. Everyone is welcome to contribute to the Ada Programming wikibook. The existing page about Vectors[1] is very short and would benefit greatly from your work. Meanwhile, your page is probably not the first place newbies would find when looking for information whereas, even a few minutes ago, someone posted a question right here on comp.lang.ada after reading the now well-known Wikibook. [1] http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming/Libraries/Ada.Containers.V= ectors > if we were to intrude on an already active wiki. You have two people's sympathy already. You're not an intruder. And the Ada Programming wiki is never active enough. :) > With our own wiki, we can write whatever we want, however we want. And > if other people feel some of our content is good enough to be added to > for example the Ada Programming wikibook, then they are more than > welcome to grab the content in question and add it. Copy it, modify it, > use it. All content on the ada-dk.org wiki is made available under the > GFDL 1.3 license. That's called "duplication of effort" and "maintenance nightmare". Ada was designed to maximize reuse and minimize the maintenance burden. Heed her advice :) -- Ludovic Brenta.