Re: [gNewSense-users] Moving pages in the wiki

[Sam Geeraerts]

Karl Goetz wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm hatching a plan to reorganise the wiki. It would be to try and get
> different 'classes' of page into their own section, instead of sitting
> under /Main/*.

Cool. I have thought about cleaning up the wiki myself a few times, but 
trying to come up with a sensible structure made my head hurt.

> Firstly, I'll point out this can only happen if PmWIKI supports page moves
> and renames - ours doesnt seem to currentlyu.
>
> So far, i've thought the following would be useful:
>
> /Documentation/ (exists)
> /FreedomVerification/ (for PFV, KFV, and related things)
> /Projects/ (exists)
> /Builder/ (exists)
> /Translations/ (exists)
> /IRC/ (exists)
> /Community/ (exists)

- Documentation: is this supposed to be user documentation only or also 
developer/contributor documentation?
- FreedomVerification, Builder, Translations: I would say these are 
projects, so I think it's more logical to put them under Projects.
- IRC: it's a community resource, so why not place it under Community? 
(Same goes for mailing lists.)

> I'm also thinking of merging these pages:
> Main/CurrentProjects and Main/HowToHelp

CurrentProjects is a dry (and possibly overwhelming) list of things to 
do. HowToHelp is a friendly invitation to join the community. It has 
items that aren't really projects, like joining the mailing list. I 
think it's better to make HowToHelp more inviting (more entry-level 
tasks, like "Put a button on your blog") and more visible (on the 
homepage, Community-page or in the menu).

> And want to rename these:
> Main/TranslatingTheWWWSite
>
> And move these:
> Main/CurrentProjects to Projects/Current

Is it useful to have a current projects page? Are there projects that 
are not current? Is it clear which projects are actively being worked on 
(a.k.a. current) and which aren't?

> An action I've already taken today was splitting
> Main/TranslatingTheWWWSite into three pages - Main/TranslatingTheWWWSite,
> IRC.Creating, Main.MailingList (although i'm not sure MilingList should be
> there)
>
> Finally, I've created http://wiki.gnewsense.org/Main/EditingGuidelines -
> could people please help me tidy it up and make it useable? :)
>
> Thoughts on all this? I think cleaning up the broken links, making sure
> the translations are all ok still would be a fair amount of work.
>
> kk