> On Wednesday, March 20th, 2024 at 10:09 AM, Jim Hall via Freedos-devel > <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > [..] > > What to do about the "Networking How-to"? This is a collection of > > pages that wasn't written as a typical "wiki" page (every page in a > > wiki should stand on its own, with links to other pages for more info) > > but as a series of pages that follow step 1, step 2, .. etc. > > > > Should I just copy/paste those pages into the new wiki, or move them > > out into a new kind of "how-to" article? > > > > We have another collection of pages for an "Installation Guide" and I > > have the same question there. > > > > > > Related: > > > > I (and others) wrote a bunch of articles about FreeDOS for > > Opensource.com before they stopped publishing (about a year ago). > > Opensource.com is still up, and I'd like to copy/paste the FreeDOS > > articles into a website that we control in case Opensource.com goes > > away. At least the articles I wrote, and I can ask permission of other > > authors if I have their contact info. > > [..] > > > > Should I just copy/paste those into the new wiki, or should I create a > > new website to republish these, like a howto.freedos.org website .. or > > maybe a "howto" directory on the new wiki website (but outside the > > "wiki" itself) like wiki.freedos.org/howto .. or a "howto" directory > > on the main website, like www.freedos.org/howto .. what's the best > > plan? [..]
On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 1:50 PM Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-devel <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > Personally, I'm a big fan of keeping information in one easy to access > place. If it were me, I would put the articles in their own section > on the wiki under a helpful title, where they could also be linked to > from other articles in the wiki, e.g. an article on how to install > FreeDOS could link to How-Tos detailing how one would partition and > format their drive. I'm no SEO expert by far, but I would think that > the fact that the articles are not simply copy-pasted but are also > linked to from other pages on the site - not to mention that there > is a ton of other content on the wiki, making it more than a simple > copy-paste ripoff of the source site - would mitigate the down-ranking > which Google et al. may otherwise do. I'm definitely a fan of not adding more work for myself. :-) Adding the how-to articles inside the wiki seems like a good idea, then. And that way, it keeps all documentation in one place. Maybe I'll create a "parent" entry like "Howto" and copy/paste all the other how-to articles under that so you have paths like wiki.freedos.org/Howto/(topic) or whatever. _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
