Gentoo Wiki:FAQ/en

Relation to community wikis
There are already several community wikis out there, most known is gentoo-wiki.com. In spite of this given situation, we started this official wiki, because most Gentoo developers and others will not contribute to the community wikis, but only to an official wiki.

We asked the g-w.com operators to merge with the Gentoo Wiki project. After some discussion they rejected.

The Gentoo Wiki herd is aware of the fact that there will be duplicated effort, because the goals of the wikis overlap. However, the reasons to start the official wiki do not change.

Because of incompatible licenses, "copy-and-paste" of articles from gentoo-wiki.com to here is not allowed, unless all authors of an article explicitly relicense their contributions for use here.

Note that if an author has contributed an entire article to another wiki, that same author can simply recreate their original content here (preferably along with a quick note on the article's "Discussion" page explaining the situation). This is sufficient to constitute "relicensing" of the content.

If some other wiki uses the same licence as this one (CC-BY-SA 3.0), it may be possible to copy or import the article to this wiki in a way that preserves a record of its edit history (necessary for proper licensing). Please post a request at Gentoo Wiki:Suggestions if you want to do this.

Localization
This wiki encourages the localization of pages. To support this effort the wiki uses the translate extension to approach concerns about the quality and outdateness of translated pages. The extension offers in-wiki features to translate english original pages to localized pages. Additional wanted automatic features are:


 * Pages will be translated section by section instead of the whole page at once. So several translators can share the work.

The Gentoo Wiki project is aware of the fact that original pages in other languages than English are not possible and of the slight overhead of the solution. However, the increase in quality outweighs the disadvantages.

If you really want to contribute a non-English article that you cannot translate into English first, please request help at Gentoo Wiki:Suggestions.