On Wed, 21 Dec 2005, Graham Anderson wrote: [...]
> >> This assumes that you know ahead of time what you're looking for, and > >> this doesn't give you the opportunity to discover what's available. > >> If you don't know what's available (and what you need to search for), > >> being buddies with Google isn't much help. > > > > I totally agree with you. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be an > > automated way to generate a sitemap for the wiki. IMHO we need someone > > (any volunteers? ;)) to go though the wiki pages and categorize them + > > create some sort of sitemap. > > > > Until then http://www.opensuse.org/index.php?title=Special:Categories > > might be something for you - but it's only a temporary solution. > > I think Christoph has 'hit the nail on the head' here. > > Media wiki provides for categorisation of all the pages including > parent/sub categroy relationships. This in theory *should* be enough to > at least start a user off for navigation however there are a few > caveats. First there is no category tree structure so categories are > presented in a click through paginated list, probably in no order other > than when they were created. Also categories can be added/updated > dynamically with a soft link e.g. [[Category: foo]] on a new page will > automatically add the category foo, [[Category: bar]] on a page that > belongs to the foo category will add a sub category of foo called bar. > Also, there is no direct link to the categories from the home page at > the moment. As soon as we have the Categories in good shape, I'll make sure to have a like on the front page! > Even if there were a user looking for vmware help might, for > example, see the category 'Virtulization Software' and click on that. If > he did he would see 'Xen' and some other page but not vmware which is > currently in its own category even though it is also virtualization > software ;) > > As you see this is quite flexible but can also lead to duplicate > categories, category cycles and so on... So what I'm getting at really > is that even the categories need a bit of love and attention now and > again. > > So Christoph is quite right, a site map should be generated ( manually ) > of the major categories with at least the first level of child > categories. This would certainly go a long way to helping navigation on > the site which i think is not great at the moment. I'll do what i can > over the next 2 weeks of holidays ( between eating and drinking too much > ;) to sort any uncategorized pages. Theres around 150 or so of these at > the moment so its not *too bad* ;) Wow, that's great - many thanks in advance! > If you are editing or creating any pages in the meantime it might be > worthwhile to bear all of this in mind and try to remember to categorise > your page correctly. Regards Christoph --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
