On Wednesday 27 February 2008 08:42:18 pm Josh wrote:

I just want to make sure we are keeping up the conversation and getting some of the important information in a central place.

As we read from Frank S, categories alone aren't the best route for the wiki overhaul and we know editing of all articles and re-categorizing them is unsatisfying work.

So Rajko's proposed Portal idea is a solution that may be more tolerable. This is a lot of work for one person so recruiting more wiki editors is a must. Rajko mentioned the Wiki Team pages says the wiki team is a loose group of people. This may need to be redefined.

If we can have a groups of people to work on certain sections of the portal it will divide the work and ease the workload on all of us. So the other question Rajko brought up is where do we recruit these dedicated wiki editors?

A summary of all of this: * We have the openSUSE:Popular Topics page which we need to overview and determine the 5-10 most important areas of interest and make dedicated portal pages to these topics.

* The openSUSE:Category_Hierarchy page should still be worked on. The category tree can then be used in the Portal.

* Recruit our first actual wiki team(s). Announce on mailing lists, forums, the main page. We probably need to come up with our portal categories before we recruit the respective teams.

This was written yesterday, but my provider could not take mail. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Excellent. http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Wiki_Tasks On the wiki we can track execution, add items and have archive. The article is on openSUSE name space as the other 2, to keep Main name space as clean as possible. It could be similar to Mettings. Let me add something. Sorting of articles that talk about openSUSE versions and cleanup of articles that have version dependent information. There is: Factory Current = 10.3 Supported = 10.2 and 10.1 Obsolete =< 10.0 I guess SDB has usable organization in this regard. One of ideas would be to include version information in title. That means duplication of some articles, and the problem gets worse if there is desktop dependable information. Classic examples are Compiz, ATI and Nvidia articles. On the other hand with title: Compiz Fusion KDE 10.3 we get linear article that is easy to follow without conditional branches "If you use KDE than ....." and "This is for openSUSE 10.2 ...." statements. a) The other approach would be to use subpages. So title would be Compiz Fusion and than Compiz Fusion/10.3 KDE. b) Third approach would be to use different titles, but create template {{Compiz Fusion Main}} that can be edited for all other articles, and than version and dektop specific part in Compiz Fusion KDE 10.3. Main article Compiz Fusion would be group of links to actuall articles. c) Combination of a) and b) would be probably the most attractive for browsing. I consider subpages as additional information to main page, not as a browsing tree and this would be the case of proper usage. -- 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