dividing up the wiki?

[Jaroslav Reznik]

----- Original Message -----
> 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 and making sure any outdated information is corrected of put into an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.

Wow, awesome to have you working on it. Could you please document how 
do you deal with it and we can try to get it widespread, so maybe more
people would join you. It's a gigantic task and every hand would be
nice I'd say ;-).

Jaroslav

> - 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 valid uses got too outdated, that it probably does not make sense to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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