Rather than handling the structure of the wiki, personally I think the most important thing for the cleanup should be focusing on correctness and removal of out-dated information. Most of the pages in the wiki are out of date and contain incorrect information. We have to improve content and remove useless pages at the same time and make them better structured. I agree on cleaning up the wiki but I think we should deal with the content, too, not only with the structure.
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 4:31 AM, Christoph Wickert <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello LXDE people! > > We should do some cleanup of the wiki and the blog. Some people tend to > introduce new useless categories (in the wiki) and tags (in the blog): > They introduce more redundancy and thus make info harder to find for the > users. For the writers it is more complicated to manage the wiki and the > blog. > > So I suggest some guidelines: > > * Do not use Categories (wiki) or tags (blog) if they will > propably never have more than one entry. For example the tag > "lxmusic 0.4.2" is useless because it is very likely that there > will be only one blog article about lxmusic 0.4.2. If you want a > tag, use "lxmusic" instead and apply it to all articles that > mention lxmusic. > * Do not use redundant names: Do not duplicate LXDE in the > tag/category, e.g. just "Community" or "Development" instead of > "LXDE Community" or "LXDE Development". It's clear that the LXDE > wiki will not deal with KDE development. Don't worry about > search engines, they will find us anyway. > * The category "LXDE" is the most useless category but contains 56 > articles. What are we going to to with it? > * To remove a category from the wiki, first empty it by removing > the category from the wiki pages and then make a redirect from > the removed category to the proper one, e.g. from "Category:LXDE > Development" to "Category:Development". This is done with > "#REDIRECT [[name of the target page]]" > * Categories should start with capital letters. Not sure about > tags in the wiki though, but we should make sure that we don't > have the same tag with capital and lower case letters. > * Last but not least: When you edit the wiki, please add a small > note for the changelogs. > > Does everybody agree to these guidelines? If so, we should agree on a > basic set of categories for the wiki and make sure that every wiki page > is at least in one of them. > > Suggestions for categories: > * Components (not "LXDE Components"!) > * Community > * Development > * Distributions > * Events > * FAQ > * GSoCc (or "Google Summer of Code" but not both!) > * GSoC1009 > * GSoC2010 (or "Google Summer of Code 2010" but not both!) > * HowTo > * Press > * Projects (as starting point or people who want to get involved, > otherwise kill it) > * Translations (better "Localization") > * Website > > The rest of the categories IMO is usless. See > http://wiki.lxde.org/en/Special:Categories for a full list. > > Comments, thoughts, rants? Just let me know. > > Regards, > Christoph > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > _______________________________________________ > Lxde-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxde-list > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Lxde-list mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxde-list
