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[opensuse-wiki] Wrong capitalization in wiki.o.o
by Petr Uzel 03 May '10

03 May '10

Hi all, I noticed that quite a lot of articles recently migrated to wiki.o.o have bad [1] title capitalization (Camel Case). If there are no objections, I'll go through all the articles, fix capitalization (article title and section titles) and _delete_ the redirects. [1] according to http://wiki.opensuse.org/Help:Style#Title Petr -- Petr Uzel, openSUSE Boosters Team IRC: ptr_uzl @ freenode

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[opensuse-wiki] Working on transition: Define some portals information domains (topics)
by Rajko M. 02 May '10

02 May '10

It was for me always confusing to define openSUSE documentation, in other words what we list in Portal:Documentation because just every written document is "documentation". Documentation portal setup appeared to me as impossible task, you have to list all that is already listed somewhere else. Now with Portal:Support in place that lists support options it seems easier to define what Portal:Documentation should contain. It should cover regular openSUSE usage, no configuration problems, no bugs. It should point to support in case of problems, but not attempt to list anything that is support. IMO, definition of what should go somewhere in the wiki should be subject to not yet written workflow diagram that should give graphic presentation of our ideas how everything works from moment user obtain copy and install distro to usage and resolution of the problems, where problems are defined very broadly as software bugs and missing features. -- Regards Rajko, -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-wiki+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-wiki+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-wiki] Templates unification (usability)
by Rajko M. 01 May '10

01 May '10

One of ideas with sorting and rewriting templates in old wiki was to make all templates appear the same way. The reason was that before some templates where positioned in center, some with text positioned left, some in the middle, different sizes and probably more things that made reading hard. We set that width should be 100%, all left aligned. Accidentally our efforts are good aligned with Wikipedia Usability initiative. We never made to the stage where even colors would be unified as Rupert came with idea to sort whole wiki and work went in that direction. Now I can see that idea of unification and usability improvements of templates is deteriorating again. I changed background color from #DDDDDD to #F6F6F6 which is lighter gray that will provide better contrast and is part of color palette for Bento: http://wiki.opensuse.org/Template:Intro http://wiki.opensuse.org/Template:Special_info The size of Template:Intro is another problem, as now it depends on content, which will give differences with text shorter then full line length, but I didn't change that. The 100% doesn't work well with Bento, it has to be 96.5% for the same visual effect. I guess that first thing after transfer is completed to satisfactory extent is to go back to our usability initiative, with more unified elements, better text to background contrast and more discussions how to improve user experience. -- Regards Rajko, -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-wiki+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-wiki+help(a)opensuse.org

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