Wiki Team/Meetings/2009 05 13-summary

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• Proposals:
  • replace Sitemap entry (pointing to openSUSE:Browse) in the left nav with a link to Portal, which is better suited [FSundermeyer]
    AI FSundermeyer: ask simon321 whethter we would loose information by doing so
  • make use of http://s.opensu.se/ on Portal page [HeliosReds]; add searches for (news|features).o.o and make http://s.opensu.se/ the overall search engine for openSUSE [FSundermeyer]
    See http://dev-loki.blogspot.com/2009/04/opensuse-search.html for more information on http://s.opensu.se/
  • Make a wiki page for each YaST module [FeatherMonkey]
  • Put the official manuals in the wiki instead of linking to novell.com [jbrockmeier]
  • we need a rating system to rate articles in the wiki [jbrockmeier]
    AI: FSundermeyer: find out if a MediWiki extension exists
  • merge the following pages [Beineri]
    How to Participate and Tasks
    FAQ and Users FAQ

• Needs further discussion on the ML:
  • When to call a page outdated? What to do with outdated pages? [FeatherMonkey]
  • get rid of the SDB, make valid SDB articles regular wiki pages and delete outdated articles [FSundermeyer]

• Misc:
  • it's too hard to find "good" articles in the midst of outdated, version specific and imperfect articles [FeatherMonkey]
  • Documentation is fairly confusing [jbrockmeier]

Passed QA check: --Shayon 19:14, 19 October 2009 (UTC)