Am Mittwoch, den 10.05.2006, 20:10 +0100 schrieb Thomas Hertweck:
Andreas wrote:
[...] I really don't know if that's the problem. The greatest advantage of a wiki is imho how easily people can add their contributions, which in turn makes them a lot more connected to the particular community.
Sure, I agree with you. That's the positive aspect of a wiki. The question is, how to minimize the negative aspects of a wiki. I've now already seen several people saying that links were removed, changes that have been made to improve the pages were revoked, and that it's hard to find information in the wiki.
I did actually "complain" about these things too. So yes, I do cherish the advantages, but would of course also like to have the drawbacks eliminated.
Unfortunately, I don't have solutions for all of these problems, but there is clearly something that could be improved. Just to add one experience I've made: when searching for SDB articles, I don't like how the search results are presented. Here is an example searching for "yast" (DE-version):
SDB:YaST Installationsquellen erzeugen (7719 Byte) 2: SDB:original_name: /sdb/de/2004/02/yast_instsrc.html 3: SDB:original_title: YaST Installationsquellen erzeugen 7: [[Category:SDB:YaST|Y]] 22: ... YaST. <code>Plain Cache</code> und "echte" <code>YaST</code> Quellen. [...]
The old SDB and the way how search results were presented there, well, from my point of view it was much more concise and clearly arranged. As a simple user, I am not interested in "SDB:original_name", or "SDB:original_title", or "[[Category:SDB:YaST|Y]]" - that's just unnecessary information at that point (it might be useful information for a developer etc., no doubt). Well, just an observation...
Mind if I take this (and other suggestions for improvement) over to the opensuse-wiki list? I guess if we all want things to change, we got to start somewhere. -- Andreas