Am Mittwoch, den 10.05.2006, 20:10 +0100 schrieb Thomas Hertweck: > Andreas wrote: > > [...] > > I really don't know if that's the problem. The greatest advantage of a > > wiki is imho how easily people can add their contributions, which in > > turn makes them a lot more connected to the particular community. > > Sure, I agree with you. That's the positive aspect of a wiki. The > question is, how to minimize the negative aspects of a wiki. I've now > already seen several people saying that links were removed, changes > that have been made to improve the pages were revoked, and that it's > hard to find information in the wiki.
I did actually "complain" about these things too. So yes, I do cherish the advantages, but would of course also like to have the drawbacks eliminated. > Unfortunately, I don't have > solutions for all of these problems, but there is clearly something > that could be improved. Just to add one experience I've made: when > searching for SDB articles, I don't like how the search results are > presented. Here is an example searching for "yast" (DE-version): > > SDB:YaST Installationsquellen erzeugen (7719 Byte) > 2: SDB:original_name: /sdb/de/2004/02/yast_instsrc.html > 3: SDB:original_title: YaST Installationsquellen erzeugen > 7: [[Category:SDB:YaST|Y]] > 22: ... YaST. <code>Plain Cache</code> und "echte" <code>YaST</code> > Quellen. > [...] > > The old SDB and the way how search results were presented there, well, > from my point of view it was much more concise and clearly arranged. As > a simple user, I am not interested in "SDB:original_name", or > "SDB:original_title", or "[[Category:SDB:YaST|Y]]" - that's just > unnecessary information at that point (it might be useful information > for a developer etc., no doubt). Well, just an observation... Mind if I take this (and other suggestions for improvement) over to the opensuse-wiki list? I guess if we all want things to change, we got to start somewhere. -- Andreas --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
