Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-marketing (161 mails)

["Rajko M." <rmatov101@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 12 May 2010 15:18:52 Sascha 'saigkill' Manns wrote:
> Hello Mates,
>
> the Weekly News Project moves to the new Location:
> http://wiki.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Weekly_News
>
> Please dont´t change the old place. Give all Contribution to the new
> Place.
> Thank you very much ...

It is not move to new location, it is move to temporary location. 
New location will be http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Weekly_News if you decide 
to go without portal page.

Also someone can discover http://wiki.opensuse.org/Help:Portal 
* Intro: Portals are also top level navigational components in the openSUSE 
wiki.

I added that right now. That is clear to every Wiki team member, but it was 
not written. Portal help needs more bits that are by now crystallized from 
what we work on, comments, and our discussions. 

Someone should check existing portals:
http://wiki.opensuse.org/Support
http://wiki.opensuse.org/Portal:Distribution
http://wiki.opensuse.org/Portal:Teams
http://wiki.opensuse.org/Portal:Support_database

There are more, but above is what we want to achieve. 
To have overview of related content, followed by all content, in the right 
navigational box. Alternative design can be like:
http://wiki.opensuse.org/Portal:Wiki

The http://wiki.opensuse.org/SDB:ATI_drivers is preview of what can be done on 
every page in the wiki with very little effort. It is based on 
http://wiki.opensuse.org/Template:Userpage. Left box for article, right for 
navigation. 

Narrow content space is beneficial for readers, and can be beneficial for 
writers; to help them limit word count. With wide content area everyone feels 
pressure to fill lines, which leads to verbosity (like mine :) and gimmicks 
like http://wiki.opensuse.org/Template:Version_note that should attract reader 
focus to important information. With narrow content field plain list of links 
will do the job, making everybody happier. Reading and writing will be much 
easier. (Remind me to review Template:Article :) 

There is template http://wiki.opensuse.org/Template:Portal , that can be used 
for team portal page that sports some of new features, like right side 
navigation to related content, clearly separated areas like introduction, 
topics, featured content, etc. That can be changed at each team will. 

Titles of the boxes can be changed, as well as names of subpages, and they are 
not bound to each other. You can create subpage Portal:Team_team_page/P1 and 
give title "Good morning openSUSE". For readers it will be "Good morning 
openSUSE", for the web it will be  Portal:Team_team_page/P1 . 

IMO, current layout of openSUSE:Weekly News as a team page is old style that 
offers:
* a lot of screen space waste on right side
* very long text lines that is not easy to read
* one team centric, without references to any other team, or topic, in the 
wiki 

Third is the main reason for all transition effort. 
We want to have wiki where topics are well interconnected, not isolated items 
that may work for themselves, but wiki visitor can't see that there is much 
more to see. 

-- 
Regards Rajko,
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