One of the items suggested at the community meeting was the recurring complaint from a lot of people about the state of the openSUSE.org wiki. Now, I'll be the first to echo a lot of the wiki's praises, and I like a lot of the articles on there, but I keep hearing this time and time again, and it impacts on the centralisation of openSUSE documentation since people don't want to contribute to it for that reason.
Several people mentioned that they'd be very willing to help with such a thing, and I have since received a couple of emails and messages from people asking about how they can get involved. I really didn't want to say to anyone "ok, just start at it", since everyone seems to be lost as it's evidently not a trivial task. So I've been trying to think about ways in which we can get a real team effort channelled into "wiki triaging", with quality control and the like. I myself haven't started doing any sort of big attempts at a clearup yet since I wanted these goals to be defined with easy ways for others to get involved. So, this brings me to a few proposals: * Suggested at the meeting: Start having a "This article has been suggested for a cleanup" notice at the top of the page, that can link to the wiki quality control information, with instructions on how to get involved. Similar to what wikipedia has. * A document with a set of tasks on what should be cleared up on the wiki. * To get a team effort going, and easy discussion on each topic, why not hang around on #opensuse-wiki, where we can always talk about each such issue. Any thoughts? Regards, -- Francis Giannaros Web: http://francis.giannaros.org IRC: apokryphos (irc.freenode.net)
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