janI wrote:
+1 to the comments from andrea, seen from that point wiki is really better
than a semi-static MDTEXT,. I only have one worry, how do we keep the local
sites in sync ?
If we use wiki, we need to find a way where it is easy just to translate
the changes and more importantly be aware of a necessity for translation,
"watch" is to me NOT the right choice.
Jan I.
That question hopefully can be answered by someone with experience in
translating of documentation from the English Language Wiki to one of
the Native Language areas of the wiki. No matter which way we go there
is going to be a need to keep multiple language areas in sync. It also
works the other way around. If a change is made on say the Danish page,
how is that translated and synced to the English page?
The question should be what process and tools are going to give us a
sustainable and maintainable set of FAQ's across all languages.
Regards
Keith
On 3 December 2012 22:49, Marcus (OOo) <marcus.m...@wtnet.de> wrote:
Am 12/03/2012 09:19 PM, schrieb Rob Weir:
On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Keith N. McKenna
<keith.mcke...@comcast.net> wrote:
Rob Weir wrote:
On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 1:41 PM, Andrea Pescetti<pesce...@apache.org>
wrote:
On 26/11/2012 Rob Weir wrote:
[Can I install Openoffice on my IPAD?] I nominate this for an FAQ.
I agree. But where is our FAQ page currently? Unfortunately, there's an
"OpenOffice FAQ" easily reachable by search engines at
http://www.openoffice.org/faq.**html<http://www.openoffice.org/faq.html>and
quite outdated (I don't know
whether
it's reachable from the home page, but it doesn't seem so).
Time to make a new FAQ available or update the old one and link to it
from
the current site?
The current location of the FAQ is prominent in search results. That
is valuable and worth preserving.
But the current FAQ contents are out of date. They would need a lot
of work to update/correct them.
Although the FAQ's are presented in a way that is OK for the user, the
static HTML source is structured in a way that will be painful to
maintain. Getting a cleaner structure, for example using HTML
definition lists (<dl>) would be easier and could be maintained via
the CMS web interface.
There is another set of FAQ's on the documentation wiki:
http://wiki.openoffice.org/**wiki/Documentation/FAQ<http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/FAQ>
These also appear to be unmaintained. But I think the wiki version
would be easier to maintain.
So one possible resolution could be:
1) Take anything of use from the FAQ's at
http://www.openoffice.org/faq.**html<http://www.openoffice.org/faq.html>and
copy them into new FAQ items on
the wiki
2) Update the other FAQ's on the wiki
3) Add new items to the wiki FAQ (like the iPAD question)
4) Delete the old FAQ directory and replace with a single page that
directs the reader to the wiki FAQ's.
-Rob
-Rob
Regards,
Andrea.
Rob;
I have been updating some of the FAQ's on the wiki site that were tagged
as
needing help. I am more than willing to start a comprehensive review and
clean-up of the User FAQ's on the documentation wiki if that is the way
we
decide to go. The advantage is that the wiki is easier to maintain and
it is
already categorized with a toc on the main page.
The other FAQ on the website is also categorized:
http://www.openoffice.org/faq.**html <http://www.openoffice.org/faq.html>
So whatever direction we start from we'll probably want to update and
consolidate.
In my personal opinion, mdtext on the website is a good solution here.
But my opinion takes a back seat when someone else actually volunteers
to do the work. So if you prefer the wiki for this, then you have a
+1 from me. I'd just recommend that you fold in anything good from
the existing website into the wiki, so we have can have a single FAQ
for the project.
Oh, actually we have a few other FAQs:
http://openoffice.apache.org/**community-faqs.html<http://openoffice.apache.org/community-faqs.html>
http://openoffice.apache.org/**developer-faqs.html<http://openoffice.apache.org/developer-faqs.html>
http://openoffice.apache.org/**pmc-faqs.html<http://openoffice.apache.org/pmc-faqs.html>
Maybe a simplifying assumption could be:
1) We make the MWiki FAQ's be the user-facing FAQs about the product
and the project
2) We have the "internal" project-facing FAQ's on
openoffice.apache.org website, in their current mdtext format.
I also would like to see FAQs in the Wiki, for both parts. FAQs have the
attribute that they are never complete, need to be updated regularily and
nearly anybody has something to add.
So, it should be the best if indeed anybody can do the update. That's best
done within the Wiki. Mistakes can be corrected fast and bad changes
reverted easily.
My 2 ct.
Marcus
