Hi Brian, I made these edits. This page has acquired a section with a list of wiki pages. The links are (in the main) merely repeats of existing links in other sections of the page. I have tried to understand what purpose "Wiki pages" serves and have come to the conclusion that it only distracts from the pre-existing organised content.
A proper homepage/portal for Printing should link to all printing-related pages in my humble opinion. The pre-existing, clean, organized links were not linking to all relevant pages, so I added the FullSearch macro that lists all pages in CategoryPrinter. The proper solution is to add clean, descriptive links for each page on the Printing portal, then remove the FullSearch. The wiki list contains a number of pages with content that is dated and positively misleading to a user using a recent Debian printing system. What sort of impression is given by a LexmarkX2310 page that conveys zero information? Then those pages should be edited/cleaned of irrelevant content, or just removed. The FullSearch serves as a reminder that these low-quality pages are still there and should be cleaned up. Page creep is one of the most important problems on the wiki (again, just my opinion), sweeping them under the rug and pretending they don't exist/hiding them will probably not help. (yes, I think the user side of the wiki is generally in a bad way) Also, scanning and printing are not related; so why the link? The https://wiki.debian.org/Scanner page? It contains CategoryPrinter at the bottom, hence it is automatically listed by the FullSearch macro. I agree this is wrong - the proper solution is to remove CategoryPrinter from the scanner page. I had intended reverting the page to Revision 24 but it seems more sensible to avoid involving myself in a process I don't quite follow, Instead, I will transfer the material I care about to a new page that will be linked to from Printing. Your PrintingOverview page is good, and is what the Printing page should be, +/- these details: - All pages with CategoryPrinter (the ones that show up in the macro on the Printing page) should be listed there. If you think some of them should not, because they're not relevant, or low-quality, then it's better to move them to another category, improve them, or remove them completely (move relevant info to other pages if needed). - The syntax of page links is wrong according to https://wiki.debian.org/DebianWiki/EditorGuide#Links, it should be "PageName - Description of the page". If it hurts your eyes, it's probably because the pages are not proprely named, and should be renamed (eg. Thetexttopdffilter should probably be "CUPSTextToPdfFilter - Short description of what the filter does", etc) I hope Printing and PrintingOverview pages could be merged again (creating many pages where one could fit the purpose is what led the wiki to the current "state"), "Printing overview" should be the first and main section on the Printing page. Please tell me what you would like to see on a proper landing page about printing in Debian. Cheers Le lun. 9 sept. 2019 à 15:27, Brian Potkin <claremont...@gmail.com> a écrit : > > A recent reorganisation of some of the wiki has resulted in a change > to > > https://wiki.debian.org/Printing > > This page has acquired a section with a list of wiki pages. The links > are (in the main) merely repeats of existing links in other sections > of the page. I have tried to understand what purpose "Wiki pages" > serves and have come to the conclusion that it only distracts from the > pre-existing organised content. > > The wiki list contains a number of pages with content that is dated > and positively misleading to a user using a recent Debian printing > system. What sort of impression is given by a LexmarkX2310 page that > conveys zero information? Also, scanning and printing are not > related; so why the link? > > I had intended reverting the page to Revision 24 but it seems more > sensible to avoid involving myself in a process I don't quite follow, > Instead, I will transfer the material I care about to a new page that > will be linked to from Printing. > > -- > Brian. >