Team, so far, our openSUSE Wiki Usability Concept is (at first glance) focused on the English instance while adopting language wikis (de, fr, es, ..) in a second stage. As we value the convenience of customers/users, i.e. this is our ultimate goal with the Usability Concept, I did some market analysis and found out that the major part of openSUSE users is located in Germany according to http://en.opensuse.org/Statistics To be even more specific, we have a percentage of 29,6% of openSUSE installations in Germany and this is by far the largest user-community around the world. Open-slx statistics (# of sold openSUSE Box products) even outline a significant 90% share of customers in Germany. That said, we urgently need to consider this while implementing the Concept and put efforts into the parallel proceeding of the German instance while going forward with the English Wiki. We, as open-slx, will put a significant amount of workforce into this effort while we'll further support the English Article Reviewing as well with Jon Rocker as open-slx employee. My collegues from open-slx (Nico, Jens and Sascha) are in CC: for their reference here. We're certainly still dependent on Community involvement though. So, if you are a German native speaker, feel free to step up and jump in by following the opensuse-wiki mailinglist. We'll provide more information as soon as we adopted the Transition plan to the German instance. Remy, may you please provide an overview about the outcome of the efforts we put into the Engish instance so far (templates, transition_list, transition_guidelines and so on) in order to empower open-slx workforce to work on translation efforts and to finally come up with a similar Article Reviewing plan for the German Wiki instance? Also, may you be able to provide a Transition_list similar to the English instance for the German one? I guess you're in charge here and have the best insight of wiki seniors. Thanks in advance! Open-slx collegues, may I provide a quick introduction (Remy will provide more details) about the current transition plan and the Article Reviewing we put in place for the English instance: We worked on standardized templates [1], [2] for usage within articles, we came up with an article template [3] to ensure a consistent look&feel for the openSUSE Wiki and we finally implemented a Transition Plan that describes the actual reviewing and migrating of reviewed articles into the new wiki instance. It's too much noise to explain this in an email, so I'd like to refer you to [4] and specifically [5]. That said, in order to come up with a similar effort for the German Instance in parallel we'd first need to translate the templates and the transition guidelines while we wait for Remy to come up with a transition list for the German instance. Please read the provided documents for a quick insight and ask questions so that I can help you to sync with the efforts of the last 3 months. Also please get access to the #opensuse-wiki channel on IRC Freenode in order to communicate with the Wiki Team in realtime. Usually there's a wiki senior around at any time that is able to answer specific questions. OK, thanks for listening and thanks to everyone involved making this effort a big success for the community. Let's come up with something awesome. Best, R [1] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Wiki_Template_Guidelines [2] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Wiki_Tag_Guidelines [3] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Article_Template [4] http://en.opensuse.org/Transition_Guidelines [5] http://en.opensuse.org/Transition_Guidelines#Step_1_:_Articles_review -- Rupert Horstkötter, open-slx gmbh openSUSE Board Member openSUSE Community Assistant http://en.opensuse.org/User:Rhorstkoetter Email: rhorstkoetter@opensuse.org Jabber: ruperthorstkoetter@googlemail.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-wiki+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-wiki+help@opensuse.org