Jeremy M. Praay wrote:
> "Neil Kolban" <kol### [at] kolbancom> wrote in message 
> news:41dd957e$1@news.povray.org...
> 
>>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.
> 
I guess this is where the wiki-fairies step in and do some weeding and 
pruning, selecting the best macro's and moving the rest into the bitbucket.
-- 
Maurice

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