put-it-on-the-wiki
<entry-title>Put it on the wiki</entry-title>
As stated in the mailing-lists general guidelines, maximizing the signal-to-noise ratio (S/N) on the email lists is important. In addition, we don't want to lose good content in the pile of emails that goes across the lists. We've learned from experience that it's better to add information to the wiki directly rather than send email.
wikis in plain english
Here is a short video explaining how wikis work much better than email for collaboration, even for something as simple as planning a camping trip.
YouTube: Wikis in Plain English
content belongs on the wiki
Please add any substantial content to the wiki and use email only for referring to the URLs on the wiki accordingly. If you're not sure where to add something, ask in IRC or email.
By creating more content on the wiki rather than the mailing lists we grow our community memory and knowledge in a way that can be much more easily searched, referenced, linked, and discovered, as mailing list archives are quite impenetrable and make it difficult to determine what the current "state" is of any particular discussion.
Examples of microformats usage
If you have examples of microformats usage, please go ahead and add them to the respective examples-in-the-wild page or section. E.g.
- geo examples in the wild
- hCalendar examples in the wild
- hCard examples in the wild
- hReview examples in the wild
- Include-Pattern examples in the wild (various types of microformat, using the include-pattern)
- ... please add more links to "Examples in the Wild" pages and sections of specs.
Since new examples are often useful for others' understanding, and for developers' parser testing, if you like you are also encouraged to send email to the microformats-discuss mailing list announcing your support of specific microformats, with URLs to the respective examples in the wild pages/sections on the wiki and noting that you have added your site and the specific URLs with the microformats to those examples in the wild pages/sections.