[maemo-community] Relaunching the Wiki Action Group

[From: Randall Arnold]

I agree with Tim. No need to get too bogged down in formality, but a little goes a long way. Overall the wiki seems too chaotic to me.

Randy
----- Original message -----
> One of my ideas was to style every "first page" of any topic just like
> the front page of the wiki... There should be easy headings with icons,
> etc. Subpages shouldn't need this styling, but they should still be
> designed with care for easy reading/navigating/etc.
>
> Tim
>
>
>
> Thomas Waelti wrote:
> > OK, here I am as discussed with Dave at the summit :-)
> >
> > For communications: I suggest we get a separate discussion list. Or shall we
> > ab-use this one? Might get spammy.
> >
> > We need usertype-specific categories to flag articles for the appropriate
> > audience: New Users / Advanced Users / Power Users / Casual Developers.
> > Application developers. Platform developpers.
> >
> > Quality feedback or "usable yes/no" feedbacks is needed.
> >
> > Categories/Labels for each major version of maemo to make it easier to weed
> > out outdated stuff. Use colored text to "fade away" very old articles?
> >
> >
> > PS: One question about maemo.org in general: Is it really only "The Home of
> > the Maemo Community, an open source community developing software around the
> > Maemo platform" as stated in the intro. What is our stance about the end users?
> >
> >
> > -Tom
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > > > > > ----- Original message -----
> > > > > > > From: "Dave Neary"<dneary at maemo.org<mailto:dneary at maemo.org>>
> > > > > > > To: "List for community development"<maemo-community at maemo.org
> > > > > <mailto:maemo-community at maemo.org>>
> > > > > > > Subject: Relaunching the Wiki Action Group
> > > > > > > Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:28:56 +0200
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Hi all,
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > The wiki has grown weeds over the last year or so. Pages are
> > > > > > > redundant, hard to find (because they're not linked from anywhere),
> > > > > > > with sections that need updating, and with the release of Fremantle,
> > > > > > > sometimes out of date. Organising everything is a chore too big for
> > > > > > > one person. The wiki has official documentation, community
> > > > > > > contributed documentation,
> > > > > project
> > > > > > > web pages (like Mer), roadmap/aspirational documents aimed at
> > > > > interested
> > > > > > > community members, and working documents related to sprints.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > It's clear that we need to build a team for the job at hand - weeding
> > > > > > > the garden, and tidying the shelves, so that we can build on the
> > > > > > > existing wiki in a scalable positive way.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > I'm looking for volunteers, and will be taking names and having
> > > > > > > discussions about this during the Summit. Ideas about how to organise
> > > > > > > content and organise the team are welcome - and, as always with wiki
> > > > > > > weeding, the more the merrier.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Cheers,
> > > > > > > Dave.
> >
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