User:Ianweller/FUDConF11 State of the Wiki presentation

State of the Wiki Ian Weller  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 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

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