Le 28/12/2015 06:11, Xen a écrit :
Back in the day, when I was still someone not entirely lost in the world, I remember having had a personal wiki page on the OpenSUSE wiki.
first of all, thanks opening this thread. Looks like the wiki is deprecated (given the place of the link on the main page), but it should not. Richard said that now the wiki is more opened, that is -if I get it well- mean that the necessity of peer review before publication is removed and it's a good thing. The priority have to be the information, not the structure. This don't mean that the structure is unimportant, but we can promote the "recent change" link to ask old timers to fix new pages problems. I access the wiki mostly with google search, adding simply "opensuse" on the search content. Many wiki pages are extremely well done, but also many needs updating after each new distro, specially now for Leap.
But it seems too BIG to find your way there. I do not know why.
two ways: search with google (or any other search engine), or work to make it better (like with this thread :-)
A wiki usually is a place where there's room for individuality. A good wiki invites users to make their own custom personal pages.
I didn't understand you previous sentence. I have my personal page https://en.opensuse.org/User:Jdd always the same one since the beginning
If a wiki is just used as "official documentation" then its maintainers are also people in "official positions". But that doesn't create community.
There is an history around this. In short the wiki was free access and, I admit, a mess. It was decided to make it wikipedia like. I was against this decision because the wiki team was too small, and began to remove the old wiki as first move. It's veru easy to organize a wiki without removing anything, it's the very nature of a wiki, and by this move all the previous links to the wiki where lost. Finally the old wiki was kept, but with different address. After that I had to copy all he pages I wrote and where relevant to me to my own wiki on my own server because I read mostly for my own use, trying to make it useful also for others (as most people do) and I need permanence But recently Richard said the wiki is again free, and I encourage again people to use it. If a page is much too bad, correct it. If you want to change name, make a copy and link the new page to the new (and vice versa).
But such a thing functions because people /can do their own thing/.
It doesn't seem the same is true of OpenSUSE today.
[( Back then I posted some inflammatory opinions on the topic of mp3/dvd (...) some of the language. Still, I had a place, and there was a way for me to "contribute". )].
if any thing engage legally openSUSE at risk, it may have to be removed
It is pretty but it doesn't work. It is not a website for people to feel at home in. It is really a front page that scares you away: YOU DO NOT WANT TO REVISIT THAT PAGE if you don't have to.
I mostly agree with you, but don't think it's so important. See my own front page to understand: http://dodin.info/wiki/pmwiki.php not so a wow effect, bu perfectly useful for me.
Does this resonate with anyone?
let alone the openSUSE front page. We can now work on the wiki. last edit: by the way, I try to subscribe to the http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-wiki/ mailing list but have no answer from the server. Is it moderated? jdd -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org