"Neil Kolban" <kol### [at] kolbancom> wrote in message 
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> Jeremy,
> By adding/improving ... I assume you mean the objects and not the page?

Correct

> My suggestion would be to have the new objects added separately from those
> that were originally posted.  For POV objects, those came from the mind of
> the creator.  Improvements are subjective.  Ideally, the original creator
> could look and see if new objects have been posted and then elect to 
> replace
> the originals with the new and remove the originals.  Additions are good,
> replacements that are subjective and are not factual additions,
> clarifications or well believed changes in fact/situation should, in my
> opinion, not be arbitrarily changed unless by the original author.
>

That makes sense.  I took a few more minutes to look things over, as well as 
try to figure out how these things work in general (I don't have a lot of 
experience with wiki's).

Mostly, what I was thinking (and to use a good example) was Gena's 
modifications to TomTree.  The original TomTree was quite slow (to parse and 
render), then (I believe) Christoph Hormann suggested some improvements 
which Gena implemented, resulting in a much faster TomTree.  Since then, 
Gena (and others?) has made it more and more robust.  It's a tricky 
situation, really.  You don't want to trample on the rights/desires of the 
original author, but at the same time, you'd like to "add to" their work, 
rather than re-invent the wheel.  I kind of worry about something like 43 
grass macros ending up on the site, and the best one(s) are difficult to 
distinguish.  Conversely, I don't think we want 43 minnor modifications of 
Gilles MakeGrass ("creates yellow grass", "creates lavender grass", etc.) or 
do we?

I think I'm largely thinking aloud.  I'm just curious how this will evolve, 
and I'm hoping that the good/best things don't get lost by the sheer volume 
of sub-par things.

-- 
Jeremy
www.beantoad.com

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