dividing up the wiki?

[Chris Roberts]

I have been going through the wiki as of late and looking at each page
and making sure any outdated information is corrected of put into an
archive page. For example on team meeting pages we don't need meeting
notes from 2008.

For example here is the docs team meeting page:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Docs_Project_meetings


and the Archived page:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Old_Docs_Project_Steering_Committee_meeting_minutes_links

Part of my contribution to the Fedora is making the wiki look better, I
have good experience with this, as its part of my day job in dealing
with wikis.

- Chris Roberts


Chris Roberts
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Chrisroberts

>>> Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik at redhat.com> 08/21/13 10:52 AM >>>
----- Original Message -----
> I've been thinking a little bit about why our collaborative
documenation,
> and, you know, why it's a painful mess despite all of the awesome
interested
> people we have. I think that part of it is that our wiki is
intimidating,
> and I think that's partly because we use the wiki in different ways
all
> together:
> 
>   1. End-user and developer documentation that isn't as formalized as
that
>      at https://docs.fedoraproject.org/ but is still very useful.
> 
>   2. Workspace for communication, like the features / changes pages,
the
>      font request workflow, or even just the packages wishlist.
> 
>   3. Free-for-all drafts and ideas that may eventually turn into one
of the
>      above and may go no where, but shouldn't really be mixed in
because
>      it's not at that level.

I'd say these are valid use cases for Wiki - and I'm not saying we can't
do better job to make sure people understand which of the above sections

they are. But we have bigger problems - after years, even these,
previously
valid uses got too outdated, that it probably does not make sense to
store
them (I know, wiki & history), or at least not be visible to search (has
anyone ever tried to use it at all ;-)?.

So for me, the first step would be to clean up old mess, make search 
available again, review current information (especially for stuff that's
in the main categories). Having some way to sort out information would
cherry on top of our wiki to make users happy :)

Jaroslav

> I wonder if there's a way we can make the distinction more obvious,
and
> steer people appropriately?
> 
> 
> 
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