New subject: [opensuse-wiki] Article reviewing - current status

6 Jan 2010

      Rupert Horstkötter wrote:
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With the Mentoring Session one week over, I see 6 Articles "checked",
21 Articles "under review" and 5 Articles "not transferred". While
this is certainly appreciated, I assume that we won't manage to go
through http://en.opensuse.org/Transition_List in a reasonable
timeframe if we don't accelerate this effort significantly.
i can't speak for any others...but, the 'holidays' were joyful (yipee)
and didn't offer the reams of 'free time' i had planned to donate to
the open source/openSUSE cause...and, when i tried to dive in, i found
a few problems/challenges which severely dampened my willingness to
plunge ahead at Mach 2:

1. a HUGE list http://en.opensuse.org/Transition_List of
work--daunting, over powering and seemingly endless...chilling...a
mountain of work...i got 'tired' just trying to find something i
*wanted* to spend time with...

and then i found an article i was willing to _begin_ with and turned
to the checklist http://en.opensuse.org/Transition_Guidelines of
things to do for each article--and *immediately* find instructions i
don't know how to follow, like:

2. in Step 1 > Format check > "Change capitalization of title page by
moving the article to the new name." ok, that is simple enough
instructions (for a Wiki Guru...which i'm not,) so i have zero idea
how to "move" the article to the new name...and, that means i can't
pick anything with a title that needs changing. (which is ok, 'cause
now _my_ list is shorter and more manageable because any article with
more than a one word title is off limits for me---waaaaaaaaaaa, what
if all the ones i wanna work on have two or more words in the title?)

3. same Step 1 > Format check > "Follows the openSUSE:Article
Template" > "knowledge bar" and immediately i need to know
	a. how i am supposed to know (or learn) if the article has been
tested against which (if any) of the current releases??
	b. i've never actually run any 11.x more than a few minutes, so maybe
i'm not qualified to help at all--is this a task for bleeding edgers only?
	c. am i to wander around in the wiki until i've filled in the list of
'recommended articles'?
	d. if i wander around and find an article to be mentioned, how do i
decide if it is a "recomended article" or a "related article"
	e. i wonder if the article i'm reviewing is going to have to be
reviewed EVERY eight months, *forever*?? and, who is gonna do that?
(obviously it will have to be an 'early adopter' huh?)

4. same Step 1 > Format check > "Follows the openSUSE:Article
Template" >  Communication > Team members, and i wonder
	a. if each article needs a list of "team members"?
	b. and what team? is each page supposed to have a 'team' of
originators/contributors/editors? (that wasn't mentioned in the
mentoring session i attended..)
	c. so, where do i find the list of 'team members'? or, do we expect
it to grow, naturally? if i'm on that list will i still be there when
i have "moved on" in, say 50 years?
	d. if there is to be a team then what about this: "This article is
under review! The contents are currently being evaluated and edited by
[[User:{{{1}}}]]. Others should not make any changes."
http://en.opensuse.org/Template:InReview which is not a very 'team
building' pronouncement, framed in red.
	e. will each page have a 'team leader' or will each page have their
own mini-anarchy?

5. same Step 1 > Format check > "Follows the openSUSE:Article
Template" > Mailing list, and i wonder
	a. if each article requires a mailing list be associated with it? do
some articles need two mailing lists? three?
	b. what about forums--if we list related mailing lists shouldn't we
also name the related forums?
	c. how do i decide which mailing list/forum should be on any
particular article?

see? imHo, i can do a half okay job of turning non-native
speaker/writer's or 'hacker' prose into nearly clearly usable, not
overly hacker/technical english...but, to do ALL that is expected for
any one article i have a LONG way to go to be helpful with:

-moving wiki pages

-wiki mark up language (sure i can learn it, eventually) [i 'know'
basic html, is there a converter? like can i feed in a finished html
page with say <b>this</b><br>and <i>that</i><br> and out pops wiki
with '''this'''
and ''that''
which i can copy paste into a wiki editing box?]

-develop the 'knowledge' of version specifics and recommended/related
articles

-associating mail lists

-following the fully ripe/mature instructions/guidelines/checklists
needed to implement the ideas/ideals decided before i stumbled in..

vr,
DenverD
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Re: [opensuse-wiki] Article reviewing - current status

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