wiki love ;)

[Valent Turkovic]

Hi, I'm a wiki contributor and have questions regarding page I wrote.
It says that that "This page needs some love" :) So if somebody can
guide me and tell me what that exactly means so that I can improve
that page. This is the page:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Drafts/GPS_over_bluetooth_HowTo

Cheers!

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[John J. McDonough]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Valent Turkovic" <valent.turkovic(a)gmail.com&gt;
To: "fedora-wiki" <fedora-wiki(a)lists.fedoraproject.org&gt;
Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2009 11:29 AM
Subject: wiki love ;)


>  Hi, I'm a wiki contributor and have questions regarding page I
> wrote.
>  It says that that "This page needs some love" :) So if somebody can
>  guide me and tell me what that exactly means so that I can improve
>  that page. This is the page:
>  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Drafts/GPS_over_bluetooth_HowTo 
I suspect Paul put that note there, and I can't say I know what he was 
thinking, but I see a number of formatting issues, and, IMO, some of the 
prose could be made a little more readable.

--McD

[Karsten Wade]

On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 12:26:49PM -0500, John J. McDonough wrote:
>  
>  ----- Original Message ----- 
>  From: "Valent Turkovic" <valent.turkovic(a)gmail.com&gt;
>  To: "fedora-wiki" <fedora-wiki(a)lists.fedoraproject.org&gt;
>  Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2009 11:29 AM
>  Subject: wiki love ;)
>  
>  
>  > Hi, I'm a wiki contributor and have questions regarding page I wrote.
>  > It says that that "This page needs some love" :) So if somebody can
>  > guide me and tell me what that exactly means so that I can improve
>  > that page. This is the page:
>  > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Drafts/GPS_over_bluetooth_HowTo
>  
>  I suspect Paul put that note there, and I can't say I know what he was 
>  thinking, but I see a number of formatting issues, and, IMO, some of the 
>  prose could be made a little more readable. 
It also needs a natural language page name and category, for example:

How_to_connect_a_GPS_over_Bluetooth ... or ...
Connecting_a_GPS_over_Bluetooth etc.

... and putting it in a few categories:

[[Category:Draft documentation]]
[[Category:How to]]

For formatting and style help:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Help:Editing
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Help:Wiki_structure
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/StyleGuide

The latter in particular should help with the readability.

- Karsten
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[Paul W. Frields]

On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 12:26:49PM -0500, John J. McDonough wrote:
>  
>  ----- Original Message ----- 
>  From: "Valent Turkovic" <valent.turkovic(a)gmail.com&gt;
>  To: "fedora-wiki" <fedora-wiki(a)lists.fedoraproject.org&gt;
>  Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2009 11:29 AM
>  Subject: wiki love ;)
>  
>  
>  > Hi, I'm a wiki contributor and have questions regarding page I wrote.
>  > It says that that "This page needs some love" :) So if somebody can
>  > guide me and tell me what that exactly means so that I can improve
>  > that page. This is the page:
>  > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Drafts/GPS_over_bluetooth_HowTo
>  
>  I suspect Paul put that note there, and I can't say I know what he was 
>  thinking, but I see a number of formatting issues, and, IMO, some of the 
>  prose could be made a little more readable. 
The page history will tell you who made which changes and when:

https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=How_to_configure_and_use_GPS_...

Looks like Ian placed the note in question.

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[Jon Stanley]

On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Paul W. Frields <stickster(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  Looks like Ian placed the note in question. 
Maybe we should make some policy whereby when you put that on a page
you put some note on the talk page with more details about what is
deficient?

[Paul W. Frields]

On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 12:59:16PM -0500, Jon Stanley wrote:
>  On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Paul W. Frields
> <stickster(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  
>  > Looks like Ian placed the note in question.
>  
>  Maybe we should make some policy whereby when you put that on a page
>  you put some note on the talk page with more details about what is
>  deficient? 
No objection here!

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[Ian Weller]

On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 01:01:05PM -0500, Paul W. Frields wrote:
>  On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 12:59:16PM -0500, Jon Stanley wrote:
>  > On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Paul W. Frields <stickster(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  > 
>  > > Looks like Ian placed the note in question.
>  > 
>  > Maybe we should make some policy whereby when you put that on a page
>  > you put some note on the talk page with more details about what is
>  > deficient?
>  
>  No objection here!
>   
Looks like I have a new task for myself... :)

I'll make an edit to the template (referring editors to the talk page)
and go through all the {{needs love}} pages, see what they need, and
mention it on the talk pages.

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