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Joseph Wang-2 on
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在 Friday 13 July 2007 10:26:43，Luigi Ballabio 写道：
I've also been slow. I've started working in New York City, and there has
been a lot of slowness due to moving up here. In particular, the machine
that I was developing QuantLib with is still in Texas, and stopped working.
I've waiting for a new desktop to show up here.
> Also, I would keep this wiki not publicly writable: write access
> would be given freely to those who are willing to contribute. It might
> be a minor road block; however, the point of such a wiki would not just
> be to remain spam-free, but that the code snippets actually work.
> Signing up for contributing is a way to show that one takes
> responsibility for that.
That makes sense.
The wikiversity page was cut and paste from the QuantLib GNA wiki, and alot of
it doesn't make any sense. One problem that I've run into wiki's is to have
markers that distinguish between "levels of reliability" (i.e. what is a
draft and what has been reviewed). Having two wikis (one open and unreliable
and the other one closed and reliable) makes sense.
> 1) The "Add your name to QuantLib/Developer pool" link at the top of the
> page is kind of misleading. We welcome people willing to contribute, but
> one's chances to do so are not going to increase by getting an account
> on Wikiversity and adding one's name to a wiki page whose existence the
> QuantLib administrators were not aware of.
I'll change that this evening.
> 2) in which way exactly has the Globewide Network Academy "committed
> significant resources to the development of this library"?
That statement got cut and paste from the GNA wiki, and I'll get rid of it
this evening. It sort of made sense when it was on the GNA wiki since
hosting a wiki is non-trivial and while the wiki was on a machine that GNA
bought and paid for, putting the label there made some sense.
Right now, I'm trying (without much success) to fold GNA work into the overall
Wikiversity effort, and if wikiversity supports the wiki, that statement
doesn't make any sense at all, since part of the purpose of moving things
into the wikiversity is so I don't end up spending a lot of time fighting
spammers. :-( :-( :-(
There is a general problem with open projects that the advantage of wikis is
that the barrier to getting something useful done starts low, but as an
organization progresses it has more structure and more structure makes it
more difficult for newbies to participate. I'm sort of running into that
problem with wikiversity since to figure what to do, I'm having to spend time
thinking about politics and management, and I'd really like to minimize the
time needed to do that.
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