[opensuse-gnome] /GNOME wiki cleanup
Greetings, list! We've been discussing the state of the GNOME section of the wiki for the past two meetings. This mailing has been delayed mainly because I've been incredibly busy in my personal life. I'd like to try to tackle a wiki cleanup event, similar in fashion to our BugDays. The /GNOME section of the wiki could use a little updating and perhaps a better navigation scheme from a support standpoint. That being said, I'd like to know what you like or dislike about the GNOME section? What would you like to see there or what would you post yourself if you had the time? What would you remove? If we get some good discussion, I'll try to organize a day to implement some of our ideas. We also discussed the potential of having a single person responsible for checking the wiki on occasion to make sure that it's complete and in order. A maintainer of sorts, I suppose. Given the collaborative nature of a wiki, it wouldn't seem logical to have a single person editing pages, but rather a single person simply checking for stale, outdated, or misplaced pages and potentially grammatical errors. So, with all of that out of the way, what are your thoughts? Thanks! -- Christopher M. Hobbs, chobbs@siloamsprings.com Network Administrator, City of Siloam Springs -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org
On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 11:31 -0500, Christopher Hobbs wrote:
Greetings, list!
We've been discussing the state of the GNOME section of the wiki for the past two meetings. This mailing has been delayed mainly because I've been incredibly busy in my personal life.
I'd like to try to tackle a wiki cleanup event, similar in fashion to our BugDays. The /GNOME section of the wiki could use a little updating and perhaps a better navigation scheme from a support standpoint.
That being said, I'd like to know what you like or dislike about the GNOME section? What would you like to see there or what would you post yourself if you had the time? What would you remove?
the wiki looks too wiki to me, that is, it is very nice to use a wiki for easy editing of pages by several people, but it needs a more website-oriented interface. The main page in en.opensuse.org looks like a good way to organise it, with several well separated sections (and a nice look, better than the GNOME page). More user-oriented stuff should be added, like links to documentation, themes, tutorials, articles, etc. Also, the Participating and Developing links in /GNOME should probably better placed in a subsection (called Participate or something like Get Involved) It is also a nice idea to have like the main page, a news roll on the right, maybe with just meeting announcements or whatever else is GNOME oriented.
We also discussed the potential of having a single person responsible for checking the wiki on occasion to make sure that it's complete and in order. A maintainer of sorts, I suppose. Given the collaborative nature of a wiki, it wouldn't seem logical to have a single person editing pages, but rather a single person simply checking for stale, outdated, or misplaced pages and potentially grammatical errors.
definitely, we need a wiki team, with 1 or 2 people to look after all
changes done to the wiki.
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Rodrigo Moya
On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 14:03 +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 11:31 -0500, Christopher Hobbs wrote:
Greetings, list!
We've been discussing the state of the GNOME section of the wiki for the past two meetings. This mailing has been delayed mainly because I've been incredibly busy in my personal life.
I'd like to try to tackle a wiki cleanup event, similar in fashion to our BugDays. The /GNOME section of the wiki could use a little updating and perhaps a better navigation scheme from a support standpoint.
That being said, I'd like to know what you like or dislike about the GNOME section? What would you like to see there or what would you post yourself if you had the time? What would you remove?
the wiki looks too wiki to me, that is, it is very nice to use a wiki for easy editing of pages by several people, but it needs a more website-oriented interface. The main page in en.opensuse.org looks like a good way to organise it, with several well separated sections (and a nice look, better than the GNOME page). More user-oriented stuff should be added, like links to documentation, themes, tutorials, articles, etc. Also, the Participating and Developing links in /GNOME should probably better placed in a subsection (called Participate or something like Get Involved)
It is also a nice idea to have like the main page, a news roll on the right, maybe with just meeting announcements or whatever else is GNOME oriented.
We also discussed the potential of having a single person responsible for checking the wiki on occasion to make sure that it's complete and in order. A maintainer of sorts, I suppose. Given the collaborative nature of a wiki, it wouldn't seem logical to have a single person editing pages, but rather a single person simply checking for stale, outdated, or misplaced pages and potentially grammatical errors.
definitely, we need a wiki team, with 1 or 2 people to look after all changes done to the wiki. -- Rodrigo Moya
I think Rodrigo has the right idea about how to make the "home page" of /GNOME more inviting. In case you all haven't seen it yet, this is what the upcoming change to o.o is going to look like: http://webtest.opensuse.org/en/. It has gotten some good praise so far from those of us reviewing it. Perhaps we should do something similar here. I suggest getting in touch with the designer of this page: Andreas Dremmer (ademmer on IRC) and seeing how we can mimic this page for /GNOME. Bryen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org
Christopher Hobbs wrote:
Greetings, list!
We've been discussing the state of the GNOME section of the wiki for the past two meetings. This mailing has been delayed mainly because I've been incredibly busy in my personal life.
I'd like to try to tackle a wiki cleanup event, similar in fashion to our BugDays. The /GNOME section of the wiki could use a little updating and perhaps a better navigation scheme from a support standpoint.
I think a wiki cleanup would be great. I think the main page for gnome just has too much text. I know there is a lot of information, but maybe a main page for gnome with minimal information, but enough to point people where they need to go. That was they don't feel overwhelmed at first glance. KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid/Silly (you pick). Stephen <shameless plug> decriptor for board -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org
participants (4)
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Bryen
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Christopher Hobbs
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Rodrigo Moya
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Stephen Shaw