Moin! Am Samstag, 13. Mai 2006 22:19 schrieb Olaf Hannemann:
In this case I think the German page is the older one. (the English one changed some time ago, but the German doesn't follow) I would like to have a page where links are easy to find. and not clicking Dokumentation -> Benutzer Dokumentation -> Start für neue Benutzer ....and so on. Clicking Dokumentation must show up the main topics. I don't want to worry about questions like "is it a Novell, a SUSE, a User or something else documentation". I want to find the topic I was looking for. So even the FAQs and things like these must be easy to find.
So there are at least two of us. :) Although I still think the "help" is a better term for the start-page then "documentation". The problem is that with the current layout you will get a very long list, which I think is not very helpful. (http://en.opensuse.org/Howtos) so one would have to have at least two columns to have better use of the available space, if one wants to arrange topics with only a sentence as decription. This is also the reason I put the help-topics on the start-page for my proposal. Just compare http://en.opensuse.org/Hardware and http://en.opensuse.org/Howtos. I think it is clear which one is clearer. Another thing I so not like are the current topics on http://en.opensuse.org/Documentation. - Installation - Articles covering all aspects of the installation of SUSE Linux. Why is the topic "installation" just bound to installing Linux, why not make installing Linux the top item of that category that handles software installation in a more general way. - Configuration - System and application configuration articles. These articles describe how to configure, e.g. a web-server, so they are mostly howtos, are they not? Hardware - Supported platforms, hardware compatibility lists, tweaking, optimizing, and troubleshooting. There are hardly any articles in there, so there is not much to say. Howtos - Howto Guides on a wide variety of topic So there is a page with all kinds of howtos, which on the other hand can slo be configuration-articles, or trouble-shooting howtos, or installation-howtos. What about taking the another approach, i.e. having topic-relevant hardware-comptibility list, config and howtos in the wlan-section, instead of having wlan spread all over config, hardware and howtos?
Didn't want to say we must do every thing like in the en wiki but I think the main pages like Front page, Documentation page ..etc should look something simular. Changing this should be a general discussion. The content may be different.
That discussion was started several times and always ended very quickly without any "approved" changes to the wiki. Sven