Re: [opensuse-boosters] Re: [opensuse-wiki] Concept Proposal for the openSUSE wiki
Rupert Horstkötter wrote:
Team,
thanks for all your input on my proposal so far. I try to summarize your ideas and state my very personal opinion. I'd also like to plan the next steps on how to actually get started with the implementation. I hope it's desired that I try to be a driving force here.
Ok, some comments on the particular points you proposed so far:
1. Use of Templates While I'm not an expert in that area, John's idea sounds sufficient to me and linking Templates with standardized formats and designs within the Guidelines make sense from my perspective.
2. QA Process I appreciate to see a lively discussion about the proposed QA process (the central part of my proposal) and I clearly see your concern from a maintenance perspective. cboltz proposed to utilize the MediaWiki Extension FlaggedRevs instead of the Sandbox/new-wiki approach. I tried to get as much information as possible about this extension yesterday and if we, as a team, agree on using it I'm definitely OK with it - thanks cboltz for the suggestion. My very personal goal with the implementation of a QA process seems to be clear for everyone and if we achieve that goal with FlaggedRevs better than with my initial approach while minimizing the maintenance overhead - that's great. I'd appreciate very much if everybody involved could comment on the issue FlaggedRevs vs. Sandbox/new-wiki as this particular issue is from my perspective mission-critical to our success with the whole concept - thanks in advance. One more thing that is particular important to me in that regard: How could we "marry" the FlaggedRevs approach with the Wiki-Forum I proposed earlier as part of the QA process. My intention here (with the wiki forum) is to get as much feedback as possible from a broad audience when working on a major edit and/or a new wikipage. I hope this intention is clear to everyone involved? May you state your opinion please?
3. Wiki-Frontpage aka Portal Rajko_m proposed to offload content from the current wiki-frontpage to www.opensuse.org while shaping the current frontpage in direction of his portal approach, i.e. the entry page to openSUSE wiki documentation I proposed earlier and honestly, I like this idea very much! An example of what I personally dream of can be found at one of our competitor's offering http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Startseite (sorry, this is in german, but I think you get the idea)
Ok,i get it (an overview).A bit of i am also working on like-to a give a better look to the portal page ( http://en.opensuse.org/User:Wwarlock/Test_Page )Formating it in rows and columns is left.Also i am focusing on the other parts of the portal.
4. Guidelines Robert outlined that the Guidelines should be easily understandable in 5-10 minutes and I totally support this point of view. We shouldn't scare away potential contributors but encourage them to participate. If we find a way to intoduce John's template idea, this would be the right place to explain the Template usage to potential wiki-editors. If we need to provide more detailed information within the Guidelines and/or if we'd like to do so, we may create additional sub-documents with specific (more deep) information and link those pages from the "main" Guidelines - just my 2c!
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So, next question is: how to proceed now? I'd propose to proceed with the idea gathering until, let's say, wednesday next week? Then we may schedule an IRC-based wiki-meeting at #opensuse-wiki with all interested parties to gather more specific input about various topics. I'd take care of setting up an agenda for that meeting and moderate it if that's desired by the team - the meeting could take place on Friday next week - what do you think about that? FINE,i am OK with it- :)
An overview about timezones our team members live in would be great here - I'm in CEST timezone.
Mine is IST time zone :) --
Within the proposed meeting we can iron out all sub-topics we need to focus on and discuss these in seperate topics at the wiki-ML (if still needed) for a few days as proposed by rajko_m - I like that idea. As a result we finally should come up with a wiki-concept we all agree on and then... let's get started with the implementation.
As of the implementation: Whom of the people involved are actually able/willing to participate in the implementation of the concept? I mean, I'd like to setup kind of a wiki task-force at some point in time and assign responsibilities to various involved parties. From my perspective it makes sense to organize this a bit - opinions?
Does this make sense to the team?
It perfectly makes sense - As i am hoping for an effective meeting which would surely come up with the BEST WIKI-CONCEPT. And also i am very much ready to channelize my energy and interest towards the new wiki-concept (In short to give my best to the WIKI)
Thanks, Rupert
Best , Shayon(Wwarlock) -- openSUSE Wiki Team Memeber http://en.opensuse.org/User:Wwarlock Website: http://www.shay0n.hpage.com Email: hkwarlock@gmail.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-wiki+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-wiki+help@opensuse.org
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