User:Ianweller/FUDConF11 State of the Wiki presentation

State of the Wiki
Ian Weller <ianweller@fedoraproject.org>
FUDCon F11, Sat Jan 10 2009

How's MediaWiki going?

• Recently upgraded to the latest stable upstream version
• The wiki is much spunkier than MoinMoin

Yet, we have problems

• Search still sucks
• Organization is somewhat haphazard, at best
• People don't realize that the wiki is the best place for documentation

Explaining the first two...

• They're directly related
• When we finish the transition to the new naming standard, the search will work as it was built
  • To do this, we must flatten the page levels, and create new, more intricate levels using categories

Explaining the third...

• Karsten has said[1] that people aren't publishing their documentation on our wiki because the documentation for writing documentation is poor
  • We're working on it
• In the mean time:
  • Be bold in your editing -- do things as you see fit
  • If there isn't a rule, default to Wikipedia's rules
  • Categorize it properly -- if a category doesn't exist for your document, make one!

A good example to start with

• Fonts SIG
• Everything is categorized
• Every page name is flat
• Fully searchable

What needs to be done?

• For the Docs Project:
  • Finish moving existing pages
  • Educate the community more about the availability of the wiki

• For current wiki contributors:
  • Help the Docs Project with the reorganization of your sub-project's pages
  • If a page is hard to follow, give it some wikilove
  • Be bold
  • If you need help, just let us know

Q & A

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