Hi,
I would like to enhance this proposal a little bit:
We are dealing with two different interpretations of a project:
a static project like API, Wordprocessor, Impress, Base, etc.
The IMHO more interesting interpretation of a project is the project
management point of view: a project is a clearly described effort to
achieve something in a certain timeframe.
Have a list of active project would point to the area where the current
development effort are. That's why I introduced also the Category
Projects to allow listing also of such Projects.
I'm unsure if we really need project in the sense of a static project:
My proposal for a new wiki home page
<http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Main_Page_tryout_mh>
may explain why
Information in general can be categorized into three types:
static documentation: such information get published at a time and is
intended to be one way communication (such as plain documentation, FAQ,
HowTo etc.).
dynamic documentation: this documents are usually worked on in project
(project management pov) and often have the status draft. they may be
published in the finish of a project and became then the status of
static information (see above). This kind of communication of often
bidirectional but asynchron.
communication often is a synchron style of communication and done within
teams.
That why I like to propose some 1st level meta categories in the wiki, e.g.:
* Projects
* Documentation
* Teams
plus the introduction of a defined set of additional categories like
API, Wordprocessor, Base, Porting , Minutes, Development, Build System,
Tuturials, MacOSX, QA this allow us to implement additional structures
within the wiki. Assigning all the pages to a category of that scheme
would also reduce the amount of orphant pages
(<http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Special:Lonelypages>)
currently we have more than 500 of such Lonely pages, that means that a
significant amount of pages is not accessible by random users.
Right now I would not consider our wiki as an success, I'm impressed how
many good pages have been created in the last few years, but I'm also
disappointed about how difficult it is to get to new useful information.
But I'm convinced that if we agree on a common structure the wiki will
get more successful than ever,
Martin
Matthias Mueller-Prove wrote:
Welcome to 8 new projects in the category "Project".
BTW - If your project does not have a wiki home, but a dedicated
category already, you can edit your category page and add
[[Category:Project]]. This is what I have done to the Website category.
cheers,
Matthias
At 13:32 14.09.2007, Matthias Mueller-Prove wrote:
Dear project leads,
if you are using the ooo wiki you might have a kind of home page over
there.
I suggest to collect all project home pages under the category "Project".
Please add [[Category:Project]] to your wiki project home pages.
You are done if your page is listed here:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Category:Project
Thank You
Matthias :: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/User:Mmp
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