Funny - I just added my first SDB article, and so I got caught up on the mailing list because I had a few questions. Martin Lasarsch wrote:
Hi
On Friday 11 May 2007 04:16:05 Rajko M. wrote:
Today I found one article http://en.opensuse.org/Installation_without_CD moved to SDB, as it was tagged with template http://en.opensuse.org/Template:Movetosdb
I copied article back to original location leaving the one in SDB untouched, and changed template a bit, to temporary fix the wording.
That brought me to think about the purpose of SDB. It was one time when Support Database was source of many solutions that helped us, and inclusion in openSUSE wiki was great present from SUSE. While SDB is better organized there is no many authors that write for it and even those that do don't look often in http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Howto as rules are adding complexity to those for writing ordinary articles.
Like the structure of an article, the focus of an easy description etc. ...
My question is;"How to define the purpose of SDB?"
The SDB is the first place where a User should search for a solution for the problem he/she have. It is usually written for beginners so it needs a special style.
I like the idea of the SDB as a more general "I have a problem, how do I solve it?" as opposed to the more elaborate nature of a HOWTO, which generally goes from point A to point B, while the SDB does a lot more explaining along the way.
If there are suggestions how to improve the SDB:Howto, please let me know ...
How do I add a category (or categories)? I added a little explanation of how to figure out what command is being run from the commandline, but didn't really see any categories that fit. I would think something like "commandline", "shell", or "bash" would work, as it isn't really a "ConsoleApps" problem. Also, the article example in the SDB Howto uses |N in the Category and I think it should be |C, right? [[Category:SDB:Network|N]] [[Category:SDB:9.0|N]] -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:jdarnold@buddydog.org) Daemon Dancing in the Dark, an Open OS weblog: http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/ UNIX is user-friendly. It's just a bit picky about who its friends are. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-wiki+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-wiki+help@opensuse.org