-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [opensuse-marketing] Weekly News in new Location From: Sascha 'saigkill' Manns To: opensuse-marketing@opensuse.org Date: Thu May 13 2010 05:18:52 GMT+0900 (JST)

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 ...

Cool! I also like the new instance. :-) However this transition may cause some problems for editors and translators. ATM, I can't edit pages on wiki.o.o because I can't login nor sign up. Am I the only one who cannot login wiki.o.o ? And, when new issues will move to http://wiki.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Weekly_News/$ISSUE_NUMBER , neither SUSEnews nor 'weekly-news-translation-tool-web' will work well and we translators have to follow the steps described at http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/Translations#Translation_tool There may be some other things to do for this transition and we need to clarify them. @Translators of OWN I think we may need to change our translating procedure with this move. To clarify what are needed, I hope you will be involved and join the next meeting which is scheduled on this weekend (Sat. May 15th, #opensuse-newsletter channel on freenode). # Well, '16:30 UTC' is a little bit late for me, though. Best, -- _/_/ Satoru Matsumoto - openSUSE Member - Japan _/_/ _/_/ Marketing/Weekly News/openFATE Screening Team _/_/ _/_/ mail: helios_reds_at_gmx.net / irc: HeliosReds _/_/ _/_/ http://blog.zaq.ne.jp/opensuse/ _/_/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org

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, -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org