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ReaperX7

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Registered: 2024-05-31

Posts: 5

We need better oversight for the wiki...

A few pages, like the ZFS on Root Installation guide namely, are completely rewritten in such a way that information is non-sensical, irrelevant, wrong, or is a self-promotion for the author who completely rewrote so much of the article that the result is a non-viable system.

Things such as forcing users to use archlinuxcn's repository just for a few script sets for sd-zfs, which makes no sense to use since the same functionality is in zfs-utils if you use the original methodology to install on ZFS exists still, as well as redirect links to the author's personal GitHub which should be explained in the wiki itself, not offsite.

We need better controls or management for the wiki to stop this stuff because these authors are blocking rollbacks to versions of the wiki pages where the information was more streamlined and sensible with a useable end result. We need wiki pages that are informative, have relevant information, and fully explain the processes of the methodology, not self-promotional stuff that leads nowhere and requires non-sensical usage of other repositories.

Just my POV.

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 13,063

Re: We need better oversight for the wiki...

That's why there's an revert function, step up and fix it. They can't 'block rollbacks'/

ReaperX7

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Registered: 2024-05-31

Posts: 5

Re: We need better oversight for the wiki...

That's why there's an revert function, step up and fix it. They can't 'block rollbacks'/

I have considered it, and I'll see what I can do with my schedule.