[R-wiki] adding content and front page

[Jack Tanner]

From: paul sorenson
>Quite apart from your "when" question, I would be interested to see what 
>others feel about adding posts.  My thoughts are that if the information is 
>valuable then it should be added, OTOH, I wouldn't want to encourage people 
>to simply cut and paste posts from r-help to the wiki, that could possibly 
>get out of hand.

My approach is to cut and paste, and then edit for legibility. How might it 
get out of hand?

My basic understanding is that if there's a general interest (rather than 
one-off) question, and a reasonable response on r-help, that's exactly the 
kind of information we could preserve in the wiki. (Naturally, it's also 
preserved in the mailing list archive, but search there is apparently 
something that doesn't happen often enough among posters to r-help. If the 
wiki is organized by task, as we'd discussed before, it might be of more 
help than archive searches.) Furthermore, if we get enough of a body of 
content in the wiki, my hope is that responses on r-help will begin to take 
the form "see this wiki page; I've edited it with the goal that it will 
become more helpful to someone coming to this problem with your 
perspective."

P.S. Philippe, could you make an annoucement whenever the wiki becomes open 
for editing?