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Wiki gardeners

Revision as of 14:35, 15 October 2009

This group is intended to act as a focusing point for, in the immediate term, the midgard wiki to mediawiki migration and, in the long term, as a centralized organization point for all maemowiki-related improvement efforts.

Right now, the primary goal of this group is to assist with cleaning up the fallout of midgard wiki to mediawiki move by putting together a strong framework (templates, categorization, etc) for moving forward with a well organized and useful maemowiki, and bringing all of the ex-midgard wikipages up to the higher quality standards of the new mediawiki.

Maemo Wiki Principles

• Page names should be short and to the point. The page name is a label, not a sentence. No more "How to EASILY boot from an MMC Card". "MMC card boot" (or similar) will do.
  • Page names should also be capitalized like a sentence instead of a title ("MMC card boot", not "MMC Card Boot") and should contain spaces ("MMC card boot", not "MMCCardBoot").
• The front page must remain clean. Each section will have 4 to 5 front-page links, with a category link (hidden behind "More topics") to all of the other pages in the category. We cat use subcategories too, for sections that get cumbersome (personal opinion of cumbersome: more than 20 articles).
• Pages should be split or consolidated so that they are roughly 1 to 2 browser page-lengths long. There's nothing worse than a 3-sentence wiki-page, or a 20-page document.
• We will link to the content outside the wiki which someone browsing to the wiki is likely to want to find.

Tasks

This is a summary of the group's current tasks. This list will evolve over time.

• Get the word out.
• Bring in people to help with the group's projects and begin defining task forces with certain realms of responsibility.

Pruning

• Edit old pages to update them for Fremantle
• Start grouping Diablo and Brora information together behind version-specific sections, to clean up primary navigation path for visitors
• Identify pages with information that could be organised differently, rewritten or edited

Weeding

• Identify duplicate or redundant pages, and merge them
• Create a list of pages here which people can merge if they have a few minutes

Landscaping

• Revisit navigation in wiki for the top 3 levels of links (front page, and pages linked to from front page) to improve discoverability of useful documentation, tutorials and team workspaces.
• Help various teams using wiki for web content to make their content ore visible & better organised (Sprints, Mer, etc)

Candidates for merging or organising under a hierarchy:

• Everything to do with the organisation of maemo.org staff - sprints, roles, bios
• New users pages - getting started with the N810 and N900, migrating old data to new devices, simple stuff like playing media, typing special characters, user interface quirks, ...

Planting

• See Documentation wishlist

Templates

• Put together a set of templates to assist in the categorization, tagging and expansion of articles, and help maintain a uniform style and format across the wiki.
• Set up a template reference page.
• Categorize all templates.

Categorization

• Revise categories to aid the organization of articles.
• Place articles into the correct categories.
• Put together an categorical index with cover content/article.

Members

New members should simply add their name to the bottom of the list and jump right into the project.

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3. qgil 19:45, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
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5. jaffa 07:09, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
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7. Baloo 22:26, 19 July 2008 (UTC)
8. Tim Samoff 02:37, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
9. Sebastian Lauwers 00:32, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
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11. Randall Arnold 19:24, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
12. Kai Thomsen 19:36, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
13. Tom "tom2" Waelti 20:20, 14 October 2009 (UTC)