Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-wiki (73 mails)

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

On Wednesday 20 February 2008 05:36:42 pm Joshua Levesque wrote:
> I  have  brought  this  to  a  few  different  areas  of  the  openSuSE 
> community  and  was  directed  here.
>
>
>
>   I  have  thought  that  maybe  OpenSuSE  should  propose  a  "Wiki 
> Overhaul  Weekend"  or  two  to  accelerate  the  cleanup  of  the  wiki.  
> This  event  would  be  similar  to  the  KDE  bug  smashing  weekends.  
> Volunteers  could  get  together  on  IRC  and  discuss  the  needs  and 
> the  future  of  the  wiki.   Of  course  this  will  require  proper 
> organization  and  announcements  to  get  the  word  out.   My  original 
> idea  was  that  everyone  would  decide  on  category  conventions  and 
> categorizing  pages  but  I  was  pointed  to  the  OpenSuSE  portal  which
>  is  a  project  to  replace  the  categories.
>
>   So  this  overhaul  weekend  could  support  the  portal  movement  and 
> get  more  users  volunteered.   The  wiki  is  very  important  for 
> everyone  seeking  information  about  OpenSuSE,  trying  troubleshoot 
> problems,  or  learn  how  to  perform  new  tasks.   The  wiki  should  be
>  accessible  and  easy  to  browse  and  search.
>
>   This  is  not  a  task  one  person  can  do  on  their  own,  which  is 
> why  I  bring  this  here.   The  users  need  to  be  aware  of  the 
> wiki's  dependency  on  volunteers.   Maybe  having  such  an  event  will 
> raise  awareness  and  result  in  a  much  better  wiki  experience.

Hi Joshua,

Good idea. 
I was thinking about that, but I'm not really IRC type. Besides, I don't know 
much about channel setup, I wasn't able to attend any meeting on work days. I 
guess that setting initial meeting on next weekend with single agenda to 
identify problem areas would be good, or we can start discussussion right 
here.  
 
The Portal can't completely replace categories, but it should be the place 
where is easier to control page layout than wiki categories. To change wiki 
categories layout one has to be familiar with Mediawiki software, while 
Portal is just normal page. 

We had few discussions and attempts to start organization from top to bottom, 
ie. from top categories to lower level categories and finally to articles, 
but it seems that approach doesn't work well as it is not possible to predict 
in what areas will openSUSE cotributors add articles. This time we can go the 
other way around, take what we have and assign names to groups of articles 
(categories). 

I agree that we need to advertise wiki need for copy editors (I guess that is 
the right name) and to form a group of editors that will take care of wiki 
organization in areas that are not yet covered. 

-- 
Regards, Rajko.
See http://en.opensuse.org/Portal
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