On 4 February 2013 15:00, Alexandro Colorado <j...@oooes.org> wrote:
> On 2/4/13, janI <j...@apache.org> wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > We have just completed the last optimization of wiki.o.o, which means
> that
> > it has entered maintenance mode.
> >
> > There is one outstanding bugzilla issue, which will be implemented if we
> > can find a supported solution.
> >
> > Now would be a good time to think about the other things we have
> discussed
> > earlier:
> > - Move cwiki to mwiki.
> > this has been discussed/decided earlier, but might need a positive
> > decision.
>
> +1
>
> > I for one find it very confusing to look in 2 wikis for the same
> > information (e.g. build instructions)
> > - Mark outdated paged with category outdated, and symbol on page
> > A lot of the information in wiki is outdated and superseeded by new
> > pages, its hard to find the correct info.
> > If outpdated paged had the category "outdated" it would be easy to
> change
> > search to excluded these
>
> Any help page on how to do this, do we have any custom alerts or label?
> {{Documentation/Caution| Outdated}}
> ie. http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Using_Cpp_with_the_OOo_SDK#See_also
>
I am not sure what you mean by custom alerts or label. Adding the catagory
is quite simple and documented. I have seen some pages use a symbol for
outdated, but most pages simple has a text like "this page is outdated,
please refer to ...."
>
> > - Put categories on all pages, and structure the pages
> > Due to the very limited maintenance the page structure and catagory
> usage
> > seems very random.
>
> Is a category already being used for this (it would be logical
> outdated would be one) but is there any subcategories for example.
> Outdated/Documentation Outdated/Development
>
No a lot of pages do not have a category at all, and many are also not
subpages but main pages. At lot of these pages to not seem outdated, but
merely misplaced.
>
> >
> > We can hopefully expect high traffic volume when we release 4.0, which
> > gives a natural timelimit when the wiki should be streamlined. Unless of
> > course, the community does not find it embarrasing to have text like:
> >
> > "Teams
> > This section is partly outdated. Visit Apache
> > OpenOffice<http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/index.html>for
> > actual information."
> >
> > on the front page, highlighting the priority of maintaining the wiki.
> >
> > Doing the work needed is too much for one person, it requires a small
> team.
> > And based on my experience touching information can generate a lot of
> > feelings, so the team should preferable contain enough "old" volunteers
> to
> > guarantee that the changes are done historically correct.
> >
> > I will keep doing the running maintenance of the wiki2 server.
> >
> > Rgds
> > jan I.
> >
>
>
> --
> Alexandro Colorado
> Apache OpenOffice Contributor
> http://es.openoffice.org
>
