> may be simply called usability. For end users (as me) it is very > frustrating to search for program documentation and to get hundreds of > project related results which do not help to solve my problem.
There is a Google Search box on the Documentation Wiki pages that searches exclusively in the Documentation Wiki pages. You can also use regular Google search to narrow your search to specific subpages in the Wiki IF the project or NLC group is using subpages... which almost all are now. Adding site:http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/ to a Google search will search only the pages at /Documentation and deeper. This is the same as using the search box in the Searching/Downloading part of the main Documentation Wiki page. You can use the Google site: search trick on any subpage set on the OOo Wiki. > more administrative work but more educative work, to make people follow > naming conventions, to explain them how to confine search to one of > the sections and similar. Project leads are already using subpages to sort and group pages related to their projects as are contributors to virtually all projects. Is it work? yes. Is it the best solution? I don't know. Would a clean start be better, moving over the pages to the "right" respective Wiki? Again I don't know... WikiMedia has been going through a process like this as they have found it necessary to move and split their Wikis. Splitting into more Wikis... two, three.. whatever is possible... with its own set of issues such as several years legacy linking in and out of the existing Wiki structure. It's the same issue that would make it really hard to use Namespaces on the Wiki now. No one else has really spoken up and said much about the Wiki structure and future. As more people provide content, it will probably only get bigger and more convoluted if we don't do something... whatever that something is. C. -- Clayton Cornell [email protected] StarOffice - Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Hamburg, Germany --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
