Le 16/07/2010 01:40, Rajko M. a écrit :
On Thursday 15 July 2010 05:49:54 jdd wrote:
I didn't understood you want to discourage new contributors and old ones...
Sincerely, the wiki structure is explained well (...)
where? I didn't find what you say next (and I follow the wiki list from the beginning). May be the way to submit pages have to be more simply documented. May be also the lack of efficient search tools is dramatic. For example I have a Blu ray writer and I wrote some ideas to write Blu ray here (in french): http://forums.opensuse.org/other-languages/francais-french/contributions/doc... Search for Blu Ray on the wiki returns nothing (and google site:en.opensuse.org blu ray don't help) The openSUSE home pages gives little if no clue on what one have to do. Project? looks like only self-advertisement Distribution? same things Wiki? most people I know don't even know what is a wiki... they see a "web site") support? I don't need support, I'm here to give some :-). However, I see there a much better search box (I wonder why it's not on the home page?) and a very intimidating list of "portals", that is an other jump level before anything usefull. Then I jump to the "Documentation" Portal.. there I find finally "Review or _Write_ Documentation", but that needs an other jump And there I see absolutely nothing about writing my own small page on the wiki. After half an hour unusefull work, I give up. On the Forum all I had to do is go to "document" and open a new thread... We had a very long thread on an other list (marketting or project, I don't remember) about "how to make users participate". The better way to make users participate is to allow them to do small tasks. Writing on the wiki is the more rewarding task, but also quite intimidating and should be encouraged as much as possible. Why not a "wikisandbox" namespace where one could write a raw document, of course a part that should be specially followed to help classifying and writing (or do you plan to follow mailing lists and forums searching for doc to include in the wiki?) I don't question the need for organized documentation, but to have something organized, you have to have something to organize, and all the present doc is subject to obsolescence! jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://www.facebook.com/pages/I-support-the-Linux-Documentation-Project/3720... http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-fan-page-of-Claire-Dodin/106485119372062?v... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-wiki+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-wiki+help@opensuse.org