philipacamaniac
April 27th, 2005, 04:21 PM
Is it just me, or is the Official Wiki (http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki) not very well organized or user friendly? I'm not trying to be mean, and I am more than willing to help.
Here are some ideas that I think would help a lot.
1. Create a categorical system (Installation, Networking, etc.) and don't show sub-pages within a category until you browse to that category's page.
2. Setup Wiki Creation Guidelines, which specify how a particular Wiki page should look and what category it should be placed into, and how it should be titled. Here's a start - "Use spaces between words when giving your page a title."
3. Setup Wiki templates, so that when a user wants to create a "How to tune your kernel" wiki, they can start with an approriate How-To template. That way, all the How-To documents look uniform.
4. Create stub articles (placeholders without any information) so that new authors have an idea of what to work on.
5. Put in a system to feature pages and how-to documents on the front page, much like Wikipedia's "Featured Article".
That's it! That would make a great Ubuntu Wiki. Of course, that's on the webmaster end of it. But it is up to the users to integrate the How-To "Customization" forum and the Official Wiki. Here is what we need to do:
1. When you create a successful How-to thread in the "Customization" forum, transfer the information to a wiki page. Be sure to include any changes or corrections made in the discussion thread of your How-to. In the new Wiki article, provide a link for the original discussion thread of that how-to topic, so that users can very easily make comments without having to edit the Wiki directly.
Here are some ideas that I think would help a lot.
1. Create a categorical system (Installation, Networking, etc.) and don't show sub-pages within a category until you browse to that category's page.
2. Setup Wiki Creation Guidelines, which specify how a particular Wiki page should look and what category it should be placed into, and how it should be titled. Here's a start - "Use spaces between words when giving your page a title."
3. Setup Wiki templates, so that when a user wants to create a "How to tune your kernel" wiki, they can start with an approriate How-To template. That way, all the How-To documents look uniform.
4. Create stub articles (placeholders without any information) so that new authors have an idea of what to work on.
5. Put in a system to feature pages and how-to documents on the front page, much like Wikipedia's "Featured Article".
That's it! That would make a great Ubuntu Wiki. Of course, that's on the webmaster end of it. But it is up to the users to integrate the How-To "Customization" forum and the Official Wiki. Here is what we need to do:
1. When you create a successful How-to thread in the "Customization" forum, transfer the information to a wiki page. Be sure to include any changes or corrections made in the discussion thread of your How-to. In the new Wiki article, provide a link for the original discussion thread of that how-to topic, so that users can very easily make comments without having to edit the Wiki directly.