Unable to edit howto

**s.fox** · June 27th, 2012

Originally Posted by ubuntu-freak

Corrected that for you.

No correction is needed, howto's belong on the wiki.

I keep my howto valid/updated and have done since 2008

Thank you.

it seems a bit weird to imply that editing is breaking or straining the forum and disabling it after 24 hours helps

Nobody is implying anything. The edits have been disabled due to spam. We have had bots post seemingly normal posts and the edit them much later with spam content.

As has been stated the wiki is for the howto, but a thread will remain on the forum for discussion.

Several members of the forum moderation team have repeated this message and I consider the matter closed. This policy is not going to change, I suggest you move on.

**andrew.46** · June 27th, 2012

Originally Posted by cariboo907

The biggest problem is that the majority of howto's in Tips and Tutorials go out of date fairly quickly, and the original authors don't bother keeping them up to date.

And yet from this confusion much good work has been done and Tutorials and Tips has been a positive force in the Ubuntu experience. It has always reminded me more than a little of the great essay by Eric S. Raymond 'The Cathedral and the Bazaar' where the virtues of such chaos were upheld. I hope those who are pushing these changes through have read and understood this essay and seen the relevance to the current situation.

**Cavsfan** · June 27th, 2012

So is this simply a matter of server space? The forum is running out of room?

I know that most people come to this forum for help. I tried Linux Mint and their forum was dead compared to this one. There are so many people on this forum
wanting to help people who use Ubuntu that it is staggering.

**QIII** · June 27th, 2012

Look. It's simple. You still get your How-To.

You either edit an existing wiki or you make a new one. People either find the wiki (and it works or they post here asking why it didn't) or they ask a question in a forum and you or someone else directs them to the wiki and the help thread proceeds as it always has before.

I ported my stuff and changed the links in my signature.

Effectively, everything is the same -- except that your material is peer reviewed and redundancy is reduced.

This is just NOT earth shattering.

Sun Tzu's wisdom is not limited to use by old warriors like me.

Most of the complaints seem to me to be motivated by bruised egos. We all liked to get ours stroked by the fact that we had How Tos with our names attached and we liked the thank yous. Oh, well. Things change.

**haqking** · June 27th, 2012

There needs to be a How-To about How-To edit the How-To.

If i do one shall i do a How-To or a Wiki, or a Wiki on How-To do the How-to ?

**haqking** · June 27th, 2012

Originally Posted by QIII

Sun Tzu's wisdom is not limited to use by old warriors like me.

To quote Clavell:

"I truly believe that if our military and political leaders in recent times had studied the work of this genius.........."

I omitted the rest to avoid politics, but Clavell had a point

I have had a tattered work of Wu for over 20 years by my bedside.

**bodhi.zazen** · June 27th, 2012

Originally Posted by Cavsfan

So is this simply a matter of server space? The forum is running out of room?

It has nothing to do with server space or script.

It has to do with what is the most appropriate format for documentation and how-tos.

Every solution has advantages and disadvantages and all documentation is only as good as the community that maintains it. You can find good forums and bad forums, good wiki and bad wiki, etc.

When you weight the advantages / disadvantages of wiki vs forums for documentation, wiki wins.

For details see: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1949027

This endless debate and personal insults are counter productive.

If you would like to help with the wiki, great. There are people here who can help you learn to wiki.

If you are not going to do wiki, that is also up to you.

If you would like to help, join #ubuntuforums , #ubuntu-wiki, and #ubuntu-doc

See also :

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ForumWikiTeam

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocumentationTeam

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Fo...eam/ImportTool

And also the Code of Conduct

http://www.ubuntu.com/project/about-ubuntu/conduct

In particular the sections on colaboration apply. Documentation is a colaborative project. Individual work goes to private web pages, not the forums.

With that I think this thread has run it's course.