Re: In the press. "The OpenMoko wiki - a tangled pile of mostly outdated and incomplete documentation."

2008-07-18 Thread JW
On 18/07/2008, JW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ok here are two ideas > > 1) Use mind mapping software using the existing links in the WIKI to let > people search / view the wiki info in a different way > > 2) Allow each page to be receive votes in the following ways > i) can give whole page

Re: In the press. "The OpenMoko wiki - a tangled pile of mostly outdated and incomplete documentation."

2008-07-18 Thread JW
Ok here are two ideas 1) Use mind mapping software using the existing links in the WIKI to let people search / view the wiki info in a different way 2) Allow each page to be receive votes in the following ways On 18/07/2008, Hugo Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 06:

Re: In the press. "The OpenMoko wiki - a tangled pile of mostly outdated and incomplete documentation."

2008-07-18 Thread Hugo Mills
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 06:23:39PM -0700, steve wrote: > The issue is the wiki grows like a weed. On one hand this is great since > information just get posted. > On the other hand this rhapsodic construction is difficult to navigate. > > So... Solutions welcomed. This is what the wiki edito

Re: In the press. "The OpenMoko wiki - a tangled pile of mostly outdated and incomplete documentation."

2008-07-18 Thread Hugo Mills
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 03:29:11PM -0500, Steven ** wrote: > I'll tell you explicitly. Go ahead. It's a wiki! If anyone doesn't > like your change, they can easily see the history and revert it. Or > just clean up your change however they like. That's what makes the > wiki so powerful. > > If

Re: In the press. "The OpenMoko wiki - a tangled pile of mostly outdated and incomplete documentation."

2008-07-17 Thread Brenda Wang
discussion > Cc: steve; Brenda Wang > Subject: Re: In the press. "The OpenMoko wiki - a tangled pile of mostly > outdated and incomplete documentation." > > Hi there, > > I thought to try fixing a small part of this particular problem by editing > the main page &am

Re: In the press. "The OpenMoko wiki - a tangled pile of mostly outdated and incomplete documentation."

2008-07-17 Thread Brenda Wang
organized well. >> >> A good start would be a better search engine >> >> >> >> Steve >> >> -----Original Message- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brenda Wang >> Sent: Thursday, July 17,

Re: In the press. "The OpenMoko wiki - a tangled pile of mostly outdated and incomplete documentation."

2008-07-17 Thread Stroller
17 Jul 2008, at 20:00, steve wrote: >> >>> Brenda >>> >>> The main page index does not address Scotts issue. >>> >>> I second scott's criticism of the wiki. It is not organized well. >>> >>> A good start would be a bet

RE: In the press. "The OpenMoko wiki - a tangled pile of mostly outdated and incomplete documentation."

2008-07-17 Thread steve
Steven ** Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 1:29 PM To: List for Openmoko community discussion Cc: Brenda Wang; steve Subject: Re: In the press. "The OpenMoko wiki - a tangled pile of mostly outdated and incomplete documentation." I'll tell you explicitly. Go ahead. It's a wiki! If

RE: In the press. "The OpenMoko wiki - a tangled pile of mostly outdated and incomplete documentation."

2008-07-17 Thread steve
PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 1:19 PM To: List for Openmoko community discussion Cc: steve; Brenda Wang Subject: Re: In the press. "The OpenMoko wiki - a tangled pile of mostly outdated and incomplete documentation." Hi there, I thought to try fixing a small part of this

Re: In the press. "The OpenMoko wiki - a tangled pile of mostly outdated and incomplete documentation."

2008-07-17 Thread matt joyce
AVee wrote: > On Thursday 17 July 2008 23:35, Dotan Cohen wrote: > >> 2008/7/17 Brenda Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >>> Hi, I am wiki full time editor of Openmoko. >>> Thank you for your opinion . I will put more effort , to make wiki more >>> easy to use. >>> And now , If you want to kno

Re: In the press. "The OpenMoko wiki - a tangled pile of mostly outdated and incomplete documentation."

2008-07-17 Thread AVee
On Thursday 17 July 2008 23:35, Dotan Cohen wrote: > 2008/7/17 Brenda Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi, I am wiki full time editor of Openmoko. > > Thank you for your opinion . I will put more effort , to make wiki more > > easy to use. > > And now , If you want to know what we have on wiki , Pleas

Re: In the press. "The OpenMoko wiki - a tangled pile of mostly outdated and incomplete documentation."

2008-07-17 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/7/17 Brenda Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, I am wiki full time editor of Openmoko. > Thank you for your opinion . I will put more effort , to make wiki more > easy to use. > And now , If you want to know what we have on wiki , Please use this > Index page. > http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Main

Re: In the press. "The OpenMoko wiki - a tangled pile of mostly outdated and incomplete documentation."

2008-07-17 Thread Steven **
t organized well. >> >> A good start would be a better search engine >> >> >> >> Steve >> >> -Original Message- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brenda Wang >> Sent: Thursday, July 17, 200

Re: In the press. "The OpenMoko wiki - a tangled pile of mostly outdated and incomplete documentation."

2008-07-17 Thread Stroller
teve > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brenda Wang > Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 6:56 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; List for Openmoko community discussion > Subject: Re: In the press. "The OpenMoko wiki -

RE: In the press. "The OpenMoko wiki - a tangled pile of mostly outdated and incomplete documentation."

2008-07-17 Thread steve
Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 6:56 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; List for Openmoko community discussion Subject: Re: In the press. "The OpenMoko wiki - a tangled pile of mostly outdated and incomplete documentation." Hi, I am wiki full time editor of Openmoko. Thank you for your opinion .

Re: In the press. "The OpenMoko wiki - a tangled pile of mostly outdated and incomplete documentation."

2008-07-17 Thread Brenda Wang
Hi, I am wiki full time editor of Openmoko. Thank you for your opinion . I will put more effort , to make wiki more easy to use. And now , If you want to know what we have on wiki , Please use this Index page. http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Main_Page Brenda Scott Derrick ??: > Perhaps this is wh

Re: In the press. "The OpenMoko wiki - a tangled pile of mostly outdated and incomplete documentation."

2008-07-16 Thread BrendaWang
Make pages easy to find is always the first priority of wiki management. I agree with you . Openmoko wiki has thousands of pages, not easy to find everything. So, we just made a Index page, every page will listed on it. Then , I had made each wiki page of Openmoko had their own category since Feb,

Re: In the press. "The OpenMoko wiki - a tangled pile of mostly outdated and incomplete documentation."

2008-07-16 Thread Yorick Moko
you can find the test reports here: http://people.openmoko.org/testing/software/ On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 5:22 AM, Steven ** <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know the devel list gets some official looking test results for each > of the main apps posted about once a week. I believe there was even a >

Re: In the press. "The OpenMoko wiki - a tangled pile of mostly outdated and incomplete documentation."

2008-07-15 Thread Steven **
I know the devel list gets some official looking test results for each of the main apps posted about once a week. I believe there was even a summary report in pdf form. I think that testing was against the ASU. So, at least you could get a pretty good status on that image. -Steven On Tue, Jul

Re: In the press. "The OpenMoko wiki - a tangled pile of mostly outdated and incomplete documentation."

2008-07-15 Thread Stroller
On 15 Jul 2008, at 19:45, John Reese wrote: > Stroller wrote: >> I thought today about starting a "Freerunner usability" page on the >> wiki, as it seems a very common FAQ on IRC. New users are not >> satisfied with "the software's not stable yet" but instead want to >> know "how 'alpha' is it? c

Re: In the press. "The OpenMoko wiki - a tangled pile of mostly outdated and incomplete documentation."

2008-07-15 Thread John Reese
Scott Derrick wrote: > But how do I find it? Its not listed on the home page, not on the > FreeRunner page, not on the getting started page?Unless I search > for exactly teh right word or combinations of words I would never know > it existed... The only link I could find, after I knew it

Re: In the press. "The OpenMoko wiki - a tangled pile of mostly outdated and incomplete documentation."

2008-07-15 Thread Scott Derrick
Perhaps this is what you seek? > http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Distributions > > This is a great page, one of the gems hidden in the bowels of the OM Wiki. Its also a great example of whats wrong with the Wiki. But how do I find it? Its not listed on the home page, not on the FreeRunner pag

Re: In the press. "The OpenMoko wiki - a tangled pile of mostly outdated and incomplete documentation."

2008-07-15 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
Hello, On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 8:33 PM, Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Right now I'm happy to edit Wikipedia or OpenStreetMaps, but not the > Openmoko wiki and I'm not sure why that is. I've seen something FWIW, what I do if I don't feel comfortable enough editing a page on the (Openmoko)

Re: In the press. "The OpenMoko wiki - a tangled pile of mostly outdated and incomplete documentation."

2008-07-15 Thread John Reese
Stroller wrote: > I thought today about starting a "Freerunner usability" page on the > wiki, as it seems a very common FAQ on IRC. New users are not > satisfied with "the software's not stable yet" but instead want to > know "how 'alpha' is it? can I make calls and send texts? how about >

Re: In the press. "The OpenMoko wiki - a tangled pile of mostly outdated and incomplete documentation."

2008-07-15 Thread Stroller
On 15 Jul 2008, at 18:27, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > Since Ken really liked OpenWRT's Wiki, I looked at it and see they use > MoinMoin. So, I am willing to set up MoinMoin on a server to be > used as > an FR community wiki. I don't think that's the problem. I think the problem is with the INFOR