Re: language-specific wiki main pages

On 12/29/2016 01:43 PM, Alvaro Herrera 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.
>

That page looks like primarily an advertisement for Postgres
Professionals to me. I'm not saying that is definitely a problem, nor
necessarily without precedent (although it might be, but I have no idea
one way or the other), but it seems like an odd use for a community wiki
page.

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