Fedora Wiki Revision
by Zacharias Mitzelos
After my workshop at Flock about the Fedora Wiki, we discussed many ways
to improve and reorganize the wiki, and we sat down with Brian Exelbierd
and Peter Travis to discuss it more thoroughly and discuss how the wiki
should operate from now on and keep pages and content in general,
organized.
So let me sum up the things that we wrote on the pad, and feel free to
visit it yourself here[1]:
* Wiki consists many things, it's a big data dump, and the first thing
we have to do is to agree what it's for. For example, wiki carries
information about Fedora's subprojects, documentation, project
mission statements, release notes, budgets, meeting minutes, acting
like a scratchpad for ideas etc. So at first we need to reconsider
what the wiki stands for. We suggest that we should be more selective
of what pages exist in the wiki. For example, the docs team is
already transfering content to the Docs website, so eventually no
documentation will exist on the wiki. Release notes, and mission
statements could be moved to the getfedora.org website. Eventually it
would be ideal to have the wiki only for information about the
subprojects (with links to join.fp.org), working groups, and some
more. We still have to figure out what to do with all the pages that
act like a "scratchpad", but that's another discussion.
Besides that, old content needs to be archived, categorized, or be
deleted. So we came up with a system, that will work with some
additional plugins that some people already said that they can write
them, so we can have the wiki constantly updated with pages that are
categorized, and carry updated content.
In more detail:
* We are thinking of developing a plugin, that will test for minimum
desired page configuration in a non-blocking manner, and more
specifically it will check if the page has a category and if the page
is linked from another page within the wiki.
* Pages that have not passed the above 2 tests, will get a "This page
needs help" note at the top, with a note that if the page doesn't
get a category or is orphaned (not linked from another page within
the wiki), it will be archived eg after 3 months. If the page gets
a category in the meanwhile, the note will be removed
* Pages that contain this note for more than 1 year, eventually
are removed
* Apart from that, we can have cronjobs that make various checks and
tasks, like:
* Pages that have not been edited in eg 3 months and it does not have
a category and a link to it, gets archived.
* Pages that have not been edited in eg 1 year get a note that says
"This page has not been edited in a year, it may be out of date."
* Pages that have not been edited in eg 1.5 years get a note that
says "This page has not been edited in 1.5 years and is a candidate
for archiving"
* Pages that have not been edited in 2 years get archived
* Archived pages are not searched by wikisearch or external engines
by default
* Archived pages remain available to be accessed via links
* Archived pages have an "archived" header
* Archived pages that have no category and no links to them are
candidates for manual deletion by wiki-admins
* We can also have a category/tag that will prevent a page from being
archived automatically
* Pages to this category/tag can be added manually
* Excepted pages are considered "owned" by their last editor.
* Excepted pages that do not have an active FAS account owner are
removed from the exception list and made subject to the archive
policy (with a minimum of one year notice).
* All users are notified of exception pages they own once per year.
* Excepted pages are subject to review by wiki-admins. I know that
people have already offered their help to develop the necessary
plugins and cronjobs in order for something like this to run. Are
there any concerns or any additional comments about this? If so
I'd like to invite you all and have a discussion, and then move
on in to doing this!
[1]http://piratepad.net/1h1o9LNeAC
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Zacharias Mitzelos
<mitzie at mitzelos dot com>
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GPG key ID: B345D18D
8 years, 7 months
Re: [fedora-web] update getfedora POT to make the new string translatable
by Paul W. Frields
Thanks for catching this, Robert -- I'll try harder to do this in the
future as part of the commit!
On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 12:38:55PM +0000, Robert Mayr wrote:
> commit 3fad763814425ff83e539870206c3f4c23fd6898
> Author: Robert Mayr <robyduck(a)fedoraproject.org>
> Date: Thu Sep 10 14:38:41 2015 +0200
>
> update getfedora POT to make the new string translatable
>
> getfedora.org/po/getfedora.pot | 6 +++---
> 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> ---
> diff --git a/getfedora.org/po/getfedora.pot b/getfedora.org/po/getfedora.pot
> index 8179ac0..a3909a4 100644
> --- a/getfedora.org/po/getfedora.pot
> +++ b/getfedora.org/po/getfedora.pot
> @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ msgid ""
> msgstr ""
> "Project-Id-Version: PROJECT VERSION\n"
> "Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: EMAIL@ADDRESS\n"
> -"POT-Creation-Date: 2015-08-30 23:37+0200\n"
> +"POT-Creation-Date: 2015-09-10 14:37+0200\n"
> "PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n"
> "Last-Translator: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>\n"
> "Language-Team: LANGUAGE <LL(a)li.org>\n"
> @@ -111,8 +111,8 @@ msgstr ""
> #: data/content/index.html:31
> msgid ""
> "Fedora Workstation is a polished, easy to use operating system for laptop"
> -" and desktop computers, with a complete set of tools and helpers for "
> -"developers and makers of all kinds."
> +" and desktop computers, with a complete set of tools for developers and "
> +"makers of all kinds."
> msgstr ""
>
> #: data/content/index.html:41 data/content/verify.html:51
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