Change "Contributors" to "Wiki"?

Stephen John Smoogen smooge at gmail.com
Thu Nov 4 19:45:25 UTC 2010


On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 11:57, Sijis Aviles <sijis at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 19:28, Karsten Wade <kwade at redhat.com> wrote:
>> > On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 11:42:52PM +0000, Robert 'Bob' Jensen wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I don't know if "Wiki Gardening" is enough of a solution, bulldozing
>> >> or perhaps tactical nukes might be more effective options.
>> >
>> > A kbase-type solution is probably what's needed - something that
>> > encourages a growing body of short, useful, topical, categorized,
>> > cross-linked, version-specific, easy to watch, maintain, and retire ...
>> >
>> > I just haven't had the *umph* to spearhead that one.  Maybe we'll get
>> > it via backdoor, such as if we have gain Drupal expertise in
>> > Infrastructure and they want to support a kbase module or somesuch.
>>
>> The KBase is on my deliverables for this year.. which uhm is ending in
>> a couple of weeks. I need to uhm get cracking it would seem.
>>
>> > - Karsten
>> > --
>> > name:  Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Sr. Community Gardener
>> > team:                Red Hat Community Architecture
>> > uri:               http://TheOpenSourceWay.org/wiki
>> > gpg:                                       AD0E0C41
>> >
>> > --
>> > websites mailing list
>> > websites at lists.fedoraproject.org
>> > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/websites
>> >
>
> The reason i got involved with Fedora was because i was 'lost' in finding
> info in the wiki. I believe i ended finding most of my info from
> fedoraforums.org, fedorafaq.org and google. I thought if Fedora had some
> FAQ/KB type site it would make for a simpler transition to using the OS. I
> began lurking in infra meetings and eventually i saw the following ticket
> for infra [1] which was exactly what I was thinking of. Nothing came of it
> and eventually i began helping with Websites group. Anyway, looking at the
> ticket, it looks to be dormant. Smooge, if you need any help with this, let
> me know.

It has been dormant for various reasons.. but mainly I have not been
updating it like I should. I am interested in knowing what open KB
tools are good these days? My dealing with them have now reached 5+
years.

> Sijis
>
> [1] - https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/208
>



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