dividing up the wiki?

[Jaroslav Reznik]

----- Original Message -----
> On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 10:33:27 -0400
> Matthew Miller <mattdm at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> 
> > 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 wonder if there's a way we can make the distinction more obvious,
> > and steer people appropriately?
> 
> Well, mediawiki does have 'namespaces'... we have some things seperated
> out in those... ie, QA and packaging and Legal, but that doesn't really
> help too much (it's mostly useful for permissions).
> 
> We could run multiple wiki's... but that increases support costs and
> also means moving drafts to 'real' is more difficult.

No, please, no! ;-).

> The wiki search function is horrible and always has been. ;(

Is it just related to our instance (because of bloat we have) or it's 
just impossible to have working search at all? I can see some wikis
that are not as bad as our is but usually it's fail to be honest...

Jaroslav

> We at some point before too long want to move the wiki to a postgres
> backend (it's using mysql now), and so if we wanted to make radical
> changes that would be the time to do so. ;)
> 
> kevin
> 
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