Turns out that it isn't needed to create a category. There's a special page called "Uncategorized items" for that purpose.
-- Bart Op 1 december 2011 08:18 schreef Ram Moskovitz <[email protected]> het volgende: > Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:44:23 +0100 > > From: Bart <[email protected]> >> To: rt-users <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [rt-users] The RT Wiki - Restructure (start using >> categories?) >> Message-ID: >> <cab2d3rakg39ni-3g3h-r0ewteltgsep+djaalk87mlhhwbp...@mail.gmail.com >> > >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" >> Hi, >> Jay, thanks for your input. I do feel that approaching it with a blank >> sheet of paper will be the best approach. >> Though we'll have to use Wikia's abilities/structure, the below is aimed >> at >> just that with a slight eye on "structuring from scratch". >> *--- A rough sketch of the idea ---* >> > > I like it at first glance. > > > >> * >> * >> The idea I have relies allot on the categories within Wikia. >> A categorie page can contain content, thus e.g. the contributions page >> could instead be a categorie page with some specific information on what >> you can expect, maybe some extra links to other stuff, etc. But the >> difference would be that since it is now a categorie page, that all >> scripts/contributions that have the categorie set to contributions would >> be >> automatically listed on that one page. (alphabetized) >> With that in mind you can quite easily create "general" categorie pages >> for >> all major topics and have any page regarding that topic being linked to >> that categorie. >> The front page would then contain a hierarchical structure with links to >> all the "sections" (a.k.a. categorie pages). And obviously information on >> what RT is, latest news/updates/etc. Another thing which you can easily >> add >> to the front page is an RSS feed of the Bestpractical blog, and maybe add >> a >> feed of the RT wiki itself showing the latest updates & newest pages. >> (should both be doable I think) >> Other things that might be nice to add are some Wikia features for the >> community to promote the usage of the RT wiki (achievements and other fun >> stuff). >> *--- The structure (concept) ---* >> Since the above shows what categories and categorie pages can do for you >> it's important to create a structure (at first on paper) which will make >> sure that all major topics regarding RT are covered so that any new >> article >> can add a categorie appropriate for that specific article. (I assume that >> the structure will eventually grow naturally) >> Since this is just a concept I've sort of just looked at the current wiki >> and tried to gather some basic topics, what I want to achieve with this >> concept is to get input from others so that we can improve it further: >> - RT Basics >> - User Manual >> - Custom Fields >> - Articles >> - REST >> - RT Tool >> - RT Cron Tool >> - RT Installation (rough categories so that people can link install >> guides to an OS categorie, no more/no less) >> - Linux >> - FreeBSD >> - Other >> - Manual >> - RT Config: (a categorie for each major release) >> - RT 4 >> - RT 3.8 >> - RT 3.6 >> - Plugins: >> - A categorie page for all plugins! This way you can link >> scrips/configs/other goodies for a plugin to that specific categorie >> page. >> - Scrips: >> - Basically a summary of all scrips available for RT. >> - Automation >> At this point I'm blank on ideas, I'll just leave it at this and see what >> responses there are. I'm pretty sure this list can be better/structured >> better, but you have to start somewhere ^_~ >> *--- Rough plan of action ---* >> This is a rather rough plan for setting up the structure: >> - Remove all current categories (double check that the categorie pages >> don't contain content of any kind). >> - Add every single page currently in the wiki to a new categorie called >> "Archive". >> > > > Might I suggest instead creating a page called "restructure todo list" and > put a list of all the current pages on that page... that way the current > structure and organization, to the extent it is useful or familiar, is > maintained and yet we have a todo list to work off of? > > cheers, > ram > > > >> - This sounds ugly but it's an easy way of keeping track of all the >> wiki pages that still need better categorization. >> - Basically a todo list, anything still in there needs to be >> categorized. >> - The idea is to do a few articles each day and eventually everything >> will be nicely categorized. >> - Create all the categories which have been though of, make sure that >> theres's at least some basic information on the categorie page. >> - Modify the home page to, at first, also contain the new categorie >> structure (keep the old links for now). >> - Start categorizing anything that's still in under Archive. >> - And last but not least, at a certain point modify the front page to >> only contain the new categorie structure. >> So, those are some ideas. >> Time for everyone to shoot at them ^_~ >> -- Bart > > > > -------- > RT Training Sessions (http://bestpractical.com/services/training.html) > * Boston — TBA >
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