Wiki Guide proposal

Mike McGrath mmcgrath at redhat.com
Thu Feb 22 14:55:47 UTC 2007


Dimitris Glezos wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> Today we got the wiki upgraded (thanks to Mike and the FI folks) and added some
> CSS tweaks [1]. The new version and the CSS foo render the wiki more usable,
> promote code reuse and can help us avoid some HTML-hacking happening around.
>
>   [1]: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DimitrisGlezos/WikiDesignTuning
>
> So, we all know that having clean pages with consistent look-and-feel is A Good
> Thing™ and that our wiki wouldn't mind some work to make it more usable and
> good-looking. :)
>
> I think we should have a good Wiki Guide that documents the use of the wiki. We
> do have some scattered information here and there like `/WikiEditing`, but the
> pages are huge and not very usable. In the guide we could promote ways to have
> good and organized content, avoid HTML hacking, etc. For this, we are also
> investigating enabling a moin module that will give us wikipedia-style templates
> that can further increase code reuse.
>
> Here are some ideas for the contents of the guide:
>
>   * Structure of the wiki
>   * Structure of a page
>   * Getting access
>   * Page templates / skeletons and personal pages
>   * Writing style (mostly pointers to existing Docs)
>   * Page editing (/HelpOnEditing)
>   * Media (Graphics, videos, etc)
>   * Exporting to DocBook
>   * Various tps
>
> How does the idea sound?
>
>   
Make it so, work with others :-) Anyone else out there already working 
on stuff like this?

-Mike




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