Brett - good feedback. Yes, the detailed usage page is *hands off* - it's in great shape. - Jeff
On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Brett Henderson <br...@bretth.com> wrote: > Hi Jeff, > > On 22 October 2012 08:10, Jeff Meyer <j...@gwhat.org> wrote: > >> Hi - n00b here. >> There's a lot of good content on the wiki about Osmosis, but as a new guy >> (fng), it seems like it could be organized a little more cleanly. I've put >> together some suggestions at: >> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Osmosis#Wiki_Osmosis_organization >> The intent isn't to change things too much, and certainly not to delete >> anything, but to consolidate similar information and reduce redundancy of >> page purpose a little. >> If there's support and/or suggestions of alternate approaches, I'd be >> glad to take care of it. >> If it's a bad idea, I'll sit tight. >> Also... if this isn't the right way to propose wiki mods, please let me >> know. >> > > There's no right way to propose anything, this seems like as good a way as > any :-) > > Regarding the wiki structure, about the only page I really care about is > the detailed usage page because it is the one page that I try to keep 100% > accurate and up to date. I'm very hesitant to split it up, re-arrange it, > etc. I take your point about the name "detailed usage" reading more like a > man page than a usage page, it's just a name that seemed like a good idea > at the time. I like the content of the page, but I don't particularly care > what it's called. > > As for the rest of the pages, I haven't been a great curator of the wiki > so I won't get in the way of somebody trying to improve it. I'm also not > the best judge of what users need to know. There is a bunch of stuff on > there, some better organised than others. The various examples are based > on whatever people have found useful at the time so it's grown fairly > organically. In particular some of the older stuff like API 0.5 support, > Java 1.5 support, Notes, etc are a bit distracting and could possibly move > elsewhere. > > Brett > > -- Jeff Meyer Global World History Atlas www.gwhat.org j...@gwhat.org 206-676-2347
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