I've done another wiki reorganization. This reflects my thinking on
how the wiki docs are written. In the interest of preventing further
index changes, I'm posting it here for comments before I actually make
the changes.

http://docs.turbogears.org/1.0/RoughDocs/WikiOrganization

The goals of this reorganization are:

1. Get everything on the index page. I believe every document is on
this index, even if it is in the reorg section.

2. Get rid of GettingStarted. This is already done.

The docs in GettingStarted didn't really know what they wanted to be.
Were they tutorials? Recipes? Basic Reference? In any event, people
were finding them rather than the pages that would answer their
questions. Those that provided information not found elsewhere were
migrated to the appropriate bin, those that provided a subset of a
Reference topic were removed.

3. Community first. I feel it should be.

4. Clearly organized bins. We now have Tutorials, Cookbook, and
Reference with ancillary Community [who] and Hacking TurboGears
section which cover the standard topics for those sections.

Hopefully everybody has a fairly good idea of what articles go in what bin.
- Tutorials are step by step instructions that are meant to get you
familiar with a component. [how]
- Recipes are instructions for how to solve a specific problem in your
project. [what]
- Reference are in-depth guides that explain the reasoning behind why
something was designed a particular way or how it's used. [why]
- API docs (to come) answer what methods are available and what their
contract is. [where]

There is some overlap (specifically the Internationalization article,
it probably should be under Recipes), but there are far fewer overlaps
than other organization schemes we've done and I feel these categories
are used fairly widely within the Python community so people are more
likely to recognize the type of documents in each section.

Tutorials and Recipes are divided into sections. These have far less
though behind them and are definitely up for suggestion. I have a
redesigned CSS file that will make the third level headings indent
with the list so the sections have a more distinct visual hiearchy
among other fun features.

I plan on getting diagrams and whatnot into the reference section and
leaving notes near the entry points so those so inclined can find them
when they're learning the framework.

I do have a list of docs that need to happen before the 1.0 docs are
finished and further plans on top of that, but I think that everything
fits in this framework.

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