Isaac Richards wrote:
On a side note, I really would like to contribute more to the
documentation/wiki but it begs for a more official structure as a
guideline to start and I'm afraid that just moving the .info stuff
to .org lacks the adequate skeleton to make the information flow
properly and be more useful to people. Since it started on the
side, it developed a somewhat halting flow for the information
organization...
What would be ideal for you, then?
I've used MediaWiki at my workplace as a kind of IT knowledgebase for
our department. The first thing I would take advantage of is the
Categorization features so prominent in WikiPedia, for example. We use
a top level category called "Knowledge Base". All other categories are
made members of this category which makes an auto-genearated index of
files. This helps in finding general sections of information. Pages
are then put into sub-categories and auto-indexed that way as well.
I think for this project, simple categories such as "How-tos",
"Hardware", "Architecture", and the like would be most useful. Since
categories can be user created, someone to keep a watchful eye on them
would be beneficial to keep things from branching out too far in too
many directions. These sections could have more specific
sub-categories such as "Capture Cards" for "Hardware", etc. and pages
can live in multiple categories such as "Capture Cards", "IVTV", and
"Hauppauge", and "Troubleshooting" for a page on troubleshooting a PVR-150.
We keep our main page simple linking to a few categories of importance
using large buttons in the style of the site with some informative text
in a 2 column table fo layout leaving most of the navigation to
self-create using the categories and depending on the full-text search
to aid users.
I would be very happy to help out with this in any way possible as the
effort seems to the outside eye to have stalled a bit. I very much
enjoy this project and enjoy my work with our workplace wiki and think
that it could be helpful here as wel..
Kevin
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