On Sunday 20 April 2008 19:04:45 Rajko M. wrote:
Searching with built in search, or Google for the opensuse.org domain gives some help in this, but as any search it is not ideal for everybody, as precondition for successful search is that person knows something about topic. This leaves users that are making first steps in openSUSE and Linux out, and that is the category that we would like to have as easy entrance as possible.
IMHO there is no way around using the search. We will never have a structure/index which will cover most or all pages. This is the nature of a wiki, you can do whatever you want (not really). It might be possible if you disable new pages from everybody, or only after a review. This is still a lot of work and against the "everbody can post" concept of the wiki. The other solution would be that somebody really would take care about the wiki, content wise, fulltime. And yes, searching means that you should have an idea of what you want :-) I'm not sure if we are that bad. I can find most information on the wiki, and i've seen worse ones. There are wikis in the wild where i'm really sitting and thinking "wth can i find something here?". And thats not because i know our wiki, it's because we have at least some navigation bar and the most important stuff on the frontpage. -- with kind regards, Martin Lasarsch, Core Services SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5 90409 Nürnberg GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) martin.lasarsch@suse.de - http://www.opensuse.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org