On Wednesday 20 February 2008 05:36:42 pm Joshua Levesque wrote:
I have brought this to a few different areas of the openSuSE community and was directed here.
I have thought that maybe OpenSuSE should propose a "Wiki Overhaul Weekend" or two to accelerate the cleanup of the wiki. This event would be similar to the KDE bug smashing weekends. Volunteers could get together on IRC and discuss the needs and the future of the wiki. Of course this will require proper organization and announcements to get the word out. My original idea was that everyone would decide on category conventions and categorizing pages but I was pointed to the OpenSuSE portal which is a project to replace the categories.
So this overhaul weekend could support the portal movement and get more users volunteered. The wiki is very important for everyone seeking information about OpenSuSE, trying troubleshoot problems, or learn how to perform new tasks. The wiki should be accessible and easy to browse and search.
This is not a task one person can do on their own, which is why I bring this here. The users need to be aware of the wiki's dependency on volunteers. Maybe having such an event will raise awareness and result in a much better wiki experience.
Hi Joshua, Good idea. I was thinking about that, but I'm not really IRC type. Besides, I don't know much about channel setup, I wasn't able to attend any meeting on work days. I guess that setting initial meeting on next weekend with single agenda to identify problem areas would be good, or we can start discussussion right here. The Portal can't completely replace categories, but it should be the place where is easier to control page layout than wiki categories. To change wiki categories layout one has to be familiar with Mediawiki software, while Portal is just normal page. We had few discussions and attempts to start organization from top to bottom, ie. from top categories to lower level categories and finally to articles, but it seems that approach doesn't work well as it is not possible to predict in what areas will openSUSE cotributors add articles. This time we can go the other way around, take what we have and assign names to groups of articles (categories). I agree that we need to advertise wiki need for copy editors (I guess that is the right name) and to form a group of editors that will take care of wiki organization in areas that are not yet covered. -- Regards, Rajko. See http://en.opensuse.org/Portal --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-wiki+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-wiki+help@opensuse.org