[sldev] [META] "Sandbox:" namespace on the wiki?

[dirk husemann]

Rob Lanphier wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> At the open source meeting today, we spent a fair amount of time talking
> about how wiki.secondlife.com would be used for AWG proposals:
>
> http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Open_Source_Meeting/2007-11-08
>
> A problem that we have right now (and one that existed before AWG, but
> became more acute now) is that we at Linden Lab host the wiki primarily
> as a resource to collaborate with the community on documentation and
> code designs.  As a result, we think that people are coming to the wiki
> with the hope that they're going to find either material that documents
> Second Life as it is or soon will be, or with roadmap material that
> Linden Lab had some hand in creating.  While a wiki is always more of a
> "reader beware" zone than many places on the Internet, we'd like to
> aspire to keeping the main namespace as an area tailored to our intended
> audience.
>
> That said, we don't mind providing an area for people not affiliated
> with Linden Lab to collaborate on material that they hope to get Linden
> Lab's buy-in of, but haven't gotten it yet.  We just want to make sure
> that material is in a different spot, and is clearly marked as such. 
> Our current solution is to move that type of material into the User:
> namespace for the person who started the document.  However, there are a
> number of shared documents that don't have an obvious home.
>
> So, I'm dabbling with the idea of creating a new "Sandbox" namespace,
> where this material would be, and where Lindens can move things rather
> than delete them.  This wouldn't be an unbounded area; we'd still expect
> people to follow the wiki editing guidelines, but would be a little more
> open to technical proposals that we don't agree with but were made in
> good faith. 
>   
how about creating an "AWG" namespace to minimize confusion? after all
the AWG has been kicked off by LL --- thus, i'd assume the stuff we
generate in the AWG space is somewhere in between?

    cheers
    dirk/dr scofield

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