openSUSE:Wiki Tasks

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2008

February

Excerpts from: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-wiki/2008-02/msg00061.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-wiki/2008-02/msg00064.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-wiki/2008-02/msg00065.html

Problems

• Categories alone aren't the best route for the wiki overhaul and we know editing of all articles and re-categorizing them is a lot of editing and it is unsatisfying work. The reasons:

1. every wiki author can add his categories, which will lead to unmanageable number of categories.
2. wiki categories have no built in capability to form category tree which is problem as categories like Applications, Descriptions, Reviews have to be named as KDE-Applications, Educational-Applications etc. Something like Category:KDE:Applications which would allow creation of category tree Mediawiki software doesn't use.

• Wiki Team pages say the wiki team is a loose group of people. This may need to be redefined. How? Ideas are welcome.

One way would be to define as requirement for each project/team (including Wiki Team) to have lead person and members with listed contact information.

• If we can have a groups of people to work on certain sections of the Portal it will divide the work and ease the workload on all of us. So the question is where do we recruit these dedicated wiki editors?

Proposed solutions

• Categories:

1) We plan to have functional openSUSE:Browse by limiting number of categories listed there. Intention is to introduce "Official categories". They will be listed in openSUSE:Category Hierarchy

2) Nothing yet. Are there plugins that will allow scanning of more than first colon and creating category tree? The Portal idea is a solution that may be more tolerable. This is a lot of work for one person so recruiting more wiki editors is a must.

To Do Summary

• We have the openSUSE:Popular Topics page which we need to overview and determine the 5-10 most important areas of interest and make dedicated portal pages to these topics.

• The openSUSE:Category Hierarchy page should still be worked on. The category tree can then be used in the Portal. The most recent idea is to merge both with knowledge collected working on openSUSE:Popular Topics

• Recruit our first actual wiki team(s). Announce on mailing lists, forums, the main page. We probably need to come up with our portal categories, some guides on how to coordinate work, etc, before we recruit the respective teams.

• Sort version dependent articles through use of subpages and templates. Please see http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-wiki/2008-02/msg00064.html for an explaination.

Work in progress pages

• openSUSE:Category Hierarchy
• openSUSE:Popular Topics