Re: language-specific wiki main pages

Hello,

We did take as example the Russian wiki page.
Our aim is to create other wiki pages in Hebrew as well.
That is just a starting point.

Thanks,
Michael

On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 11:43 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Michael Goldberg wrote:
> > I created the following page (the content mostly in Hebrew):
> https://wiki.
> > postgresql.org/wiki/Hebrew
> > Can you please check if the link to this page could be added to the wiki
> > main page
>
> It's a bit different in spirit to other language-specific wiki pages:
> most of the others (except for Russian IIRC) mostly contain pointers to
> other wiki pages, so they are all about documenting Postgres at the
> technical level. Your Hebrew page, like the Russian page, contains
> links to Facebook, Meetup, Linkedin, etc.
>
> I am not sure language-specific wiki pages are supposed to be advocacy
> items (where the social network stuff is good to have) or documentation
> only. I leaned towards the latter initially but later had second
> thoughts, and perhaps using the wiki as advocacy material is fine. What
> do others think? Maybe we shouldn't be policying the wiki too much. In
> that case, I would probably be adding pointers to Spanish advocacy
> materials in the Spanish wiki page too. Notice that the English pages
> do *not* do that. Would that pollute the wiki?
>
> On the other hand, we do have a place in the main www site for PUGs,
> including meetup.com links etc, so perhaps that kind of stuff just
> doesn't belong into the wiki.
>
> --
> Álvaro Herrera
>