On Monday 23 November 2009 10:30, bjoern michaelsen - Sun Microsystems - Hamburg Germany wrote: > On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:24:04 +0100 > > Nino Novak <nn...@openoffice.org> wrote: > > On Sunday 22 November 2009 18:30, Clayton wrote: > > > Part of the prob on the Wiki is that thousands of pages have no > > > Category at all.. :-( > > > > (For me, this is not a problem) > > [...] > > (I really don't understand what's better with unusable categories > > than with uncategorized pages) > > Uncategorized pages are: > - ownerless
wiki pages are ownerless in general as long as nobody takes care of them. > - thus become unmaintained, outdated or stay incomplete they do not become unmaintained because of lacking the appropriate category - they lack their category because they are unmaintained > - allow the same topic to be covered by multiple pages to contradict > themselves This is far less evil than having good but unusable categories > - still might show up on searches and lure users away from the > maintained documentation That does not change with giving them a (wrong) category > - make the wiki-wide maintaince using > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Special:SpecialPages > harder Not at all. They are clearly identifiable. With a wrong category they are lost. > So they are Evil(tm). And it is a lot easier to "push down" pages in > the category hierarchy as someone maintaining the category has it > easier to decide into which subcategory to push a page, where again > it can be picked up by a maintainer for the subcategory(*). Who is actually this "someone maintainig the category"? Who is actually the "maintainer for the subcategory"? > When I find an uncategorized documentation page, I would like to > make the documentation project aware of that, but without having to > learn by what logic the doc project uses categories internally. Then use an appropriate Category and not the wrong one. > > Then I'd suggest to use another category (like Doc/ToDo or similar) > > instead of making the existing Category unusable just for a Test. > > see > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Dashboard/Idea >storm#Category:Documentation.2FIncoming I would guess that > Documentation/Candidate would do? If so, we should consider such a > category for all projects (e.g. Writer/Candidate etc.) using a > consistent naming scheme so one does not have to search the > categories first how this project named their "inbox" (something I > really find annoying about the inconsistent naming of the > NLC-projects). Then you should simply do it (as you have done with many pages before :-) (and not advocate the wrong practice). Nino a little bit confused ... what's going wrong here? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@documentation.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@documentation.openoffice.org
