[maemo-community] Wiki Action Group: first task

[From: Randall Arnold]

I found this Fedora page when looking for FOSDEM 2010 info.  They use
mediawiki too-- but look at the design of this thing:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FOSDEM_2010

I want THAT look (or similar) for maemo.org.

Thoughts?

Randall (Randy) Arnold
maemo.org community council
http://tabulacrypticum.wordpress.com/




> ----- Original message -----
> From: "Thomas Waelti" <twaelti at gmail.com>
> To: "List for community development" <maemo-community at maemo.org>, "Dave
Neary" <dneary at maemo.org>
> Subject: Re: Wiki Action Group: first task
> Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:33:14 +0200
>
>
> >> Just one thing first: some of the orphaned pages aren't really
orphaned,
> >> but "just" got linked the wrong way, by using an external instead of
an
> >> internal link. Remember this when cleaning up.
> >
> > Good point! Do you have any hints on finding these?
>
> Either I succeeded in cleaning all of the pages or our search engines
> are not good enough... :-(
> Neither searching the wiki for "[http://wiki.maemo" nor googling
> ""[http://wiki.maemo.org/" -retrieved site:wiki.maemo.org" was any
> help.
>
> >> Clean up the intro of http://wiki.maemo.org/Maemowiki_Action_Group
> >> somewhat. Can the docmaster do that?
> >
> > Sure - anyone can do that. What's unclear to you?
>
> Current misssion focus. Especially the midgard transition and
> readying the templates - isn't that mostly done?
>
> >> Could we just use a category "Trash" to mark pages for deletion?
> > Yes, adding a Trash category for pages marked for deletion is a good
> > idea - go for it!
>
> Will do.
>
> >> Let's add OS-related categories such as OS2008/Maemo5/Mer. Otherwise
we
> >> will end up with a large mishmash of stuff.
> >
> > Does that approach scale? I've thought about this before - is there
> > really a need for "OS2008/USB networking" and "OS2009/USB
networking"? I
> > can certainly understand subsections for pages which are specific to
a
> > distribution but for general tutorials or hints & tips, I don't think
> > they're necessary. Of course, the problem is that the lines blur -
stuff
> > that was hard under OS2007 got easier in OS2008 and needs new
> > instructions - but that's the general principle.
>
> Yes it should scale - my idea is to apply these OS categories rather
> like labels, not doing content-related subcategories under them. So
> you have an article in the networking category, valid for OS2008. Or
> one on packaging (category development), valid for OS2008 and Maemo5.
> This would make it easier than to add OS-specific subsections in each
> article if there isn't anything to say. OTOH, we should put
> networking as a subcategory under connectivity.
> I'll try to order and subcategorize our categories, building a category
tree.
>
> >> The results of this discussion should go to either the "Maemo Wiki
> >> Principles" subsection the the action group OR
> >> http://wiki.maemo.org/Task:Documentation_rules (which one? I'd
prefer
> >> the latter)
> >
> > I'd prefer to start moving away from the "Task:" nomenclature - I
don't
> > think it adds much, and it makes page names a bit more awkward.
> >
> > How about "Editing guidelines" or "Documentation guidelines"?
>
> Let's keep it in our subsection for the moment, we can still create a
> new page later if necessary (too many stubs out there already :-)
>
> >> Which brings up another needed cleanup: Instead of being part of the
> >> category "Tasks", some pages only have the prefix "Task:". I suggest
> >> that all tasks be categorized as such and that we refrain from using
the
> >> Task: prefix.
> >
> > Oh good - we're in agreement on this :)
>
> Do we clean that up then? Would mean to move all "Task:" pages to the
> same pagename without the "Task:" prefix, and categorizing as Task if
> not yet done.
>
> Workworkwork...
> -Tom
>
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