Comment by tptacek
10 months ago
It's not Wikipedia, right? Getting the maximum number of contributors isn't a stated goal? I'm a C programmer with a fair bit of kernel experience, and they don't want me, I'm pretty sure, and I'm completely fine with that.
Wikipedia has plenty of gatekeeping too. I once had to submit a single edit three times before the moderators safeguarding the article begrudgingly accepted it.
They do, but they have a stated goal of maximizing contribution. Linux does not, right? I'm asking.
"Maximum number", perhaps not, but Greg KH did at one point want new contributors: https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/2ny1lz/im_greg_kroah...
Q: What would make you even more happy with Linux? GregKH: If you contribute to it.
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Different Wikipedia communities have different governance policies. In the math wikis there's generally a rule that small fixes are not allowed. This stops people from arguing whether slightly better explained sentences are the right edits.