I also disagree that voting / replying are undesirable distractions to announcements; feedback from the user base in response to site changes is an important feature. But I think the wiki would be useful as a place to concentrate site update information and to include stuff that is too "small" to warrant a new root node. So it'd contain links to and barest summaries of PMDs related to site changes for the last month or so and also include little tidbits culled from the list of recently applied patches, and all be presented in an attractive and more useful style (rather than just a list of node titles or a collections of root nodes, some of which don't really apply, etc.).

Maybe people would look there (if it existed) when they noticed a site change and wondered about it, rather than asking in a preplexed and exasperated manner about it in the chatterbox when there was a root node in PMD about it yesterday. ;)

- tye        

In reply to Re^4: RFC: PerlMonks "What's New" Wiki (distilled) by tye
in thread RFC: PerlMonks "What's New" Wiki by jdporter

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