I agree with Tim. No need to get too bogged down in formality, but a little goes a long way. Overall the wiki seems too chaotic to me.
Randy ----- Original message ----- > One of my ideas was to style every "first page" of any topic just like > the front page of the wiki... There should be easy headings with icons, > etc. Subpages shouldn't need this styling, but they should still be > designed with care for easy reading/navigating/etc. > > Tim > > > > Thomas Waelti wrote: > > OK, here I am as discussed with Dave at the summit :-) > > > > For communications: I suggest we get a separate discussion list. Or shall we > > ab-use this one? Might get spammy. > > > > We need usertype-specific categories to flag articles for the appropriate > > audience: New Users / Advanced Users / Power Users / Casual Developers. > > Application developers. Platform developpers. > > > > Quality feedback or "usable yes/no" feedbacks is needed. > > > > Categories/Labels for each major version of maemo to make it easier to weed > > out outdated stuff. Use colored text to "fade away" very old articles? > > > > > > PS: One question about maemo.org in general: Is it really only "The Home of > > the Maemo Community, an open source community developing software around the > > Maemo platform" as stated in the intro. What is our stance about the end > > users? > > > > > > -Tom > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ----- Original message ----- > > > > > > > From: "Dave Neary"<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> > > > > > > > To: "List for community development"<[email protected] > > > > > <mailto:[email protected]>> > > > > > > > Subject: Relaunching the Wiki Action Group > > > > > > > Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:28:56 +0200 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > > > > > > > The wiki has grown weeds over the last year or so. Pages are > > > > > > > redundant, hard to find (because they're not linked from > > > > > > > anywhere), > > > > > > > with sections that need updating, and with the release of > > > > > > > Fremantle, > > > > > > > sometimes out of date. Organising everything is a chore too big > > > > > > > for > > > > > > > one person. The wiki has official documentation, community > > > > > > > contributed documentation, > > > > > project > > > > > > > web pages (like Mer), roadmap/aspirational documents aimed at > > > > > interested > > > > > > > community members, and working documents related to sprints. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > It's clear that we need to build a team for the job at hand - > > > > > > > weeding > > > > > > > the garden, and tidying the shelves, so that we can build on the > > > > > > > existing wiki in a scalable positive way. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I'm looking for volunteers, and will be taking names and having > > > > > > > discussions about this during the Summit. Ideas about how to > > > > > > > organise > > > > > > > content and organise the team are welcome - and, as always with > > > > > > > wiki > > > > > > > weeding, the more the merrier. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > > > Dave. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > maemo-community mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-community > > -- > http://samoff.com > _______________________________________________ > maemo-community mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-community -------------------------------------------------------------- Ovi Store: Fresh apps and more http://store.ovi.com/?cid=ovistore-fw-bac-na-acq-na-ovimail-g0-na-4
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