Meeting:Fedora News 2009-01-30

= Fedora News Project Meetings: 2009-01-30 =

Dormant beats
We need to find new writers for he following dormant beats:

Marketing Ambassadors Security Week OLPC

Citation/reference hyperlinks à la OpenSuSE mag
see e.g.: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OisinFeeley#Testing_references http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/56

Linking names to user pages (added by Dale)
Ian Weller, expressed[1] concern with FWN's use of CamelCase linking to user pages in the wiki. Since users can have arbitrary usernames completely unrelated to their full name, it is impractical for us to manually link to User:foo.

Also, I can imagine a desire to link to info for people who have no wiki account, but maybe that's just my imagination.

If there were an extension we could use to reference humans in a form such as and have it derive the appropriate User:page where it exists that would be very helpful.

I haven't yet checked to see if this topic is being discussed on the docs or wiki lists.

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User_talk:Dale

Linking to archived postings
I've lately been trying to consciously avoid referencing mailing list or wiki pages using HTTPS. HTTPS links necessitate a heavier load on client, server and network. Encryption takes work on both ends and breaks proxy caches.

Once you've logged into the wiki, it unfortunately(?) directs all traffic over. Even the listinfo pages[1] use https to link to their archives. SSL, so a copy/paste is going to require editing.

I know I've seen a reference arguing the same concept, but can't find it right now.

[1] http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list