Wiki gardeners

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.

Contents

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

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)
  • Ensure that all orphaned pages are linked from somewhere or deleted.

Candidates for merging or organising under a hierarchy:

  • Everything to do with the organisation of maemo.org staff - sprints, roles, bios
  • New users pages, including Maemo basics, Questions and answers, Frequently asked questions, setting up an email account, and so on. Basic subjects gathered under here would be thinks like getting started with the N810 and N900, migrating old data to new devices, simple stuff like playing media, typing special characters, user interface quirks, using wifi in universities, ...
  • Project roadmap - bringing together the 100 days initiative, the 2010 agenda, Objectives and Tasks
  • Mer - they're in pretty good shape already, but should move from "Hot topics" to "Community" or "Developers", I think.
  • Community Council - governance, role, election material, rules, news, etc
  • Summer of Code participation - past participations, link to project pages, description of who's who (admins, students), collect reports on completed projects...

Planting

Templates

Main article: MAG: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

Main article: MAG: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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  8. Tim Samoff 02:37, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
  9. Sebastian Lauwers 00:32, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
  10. Qole June 2009
  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)
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