Hi,
at the conference, I heard multiple times that the wiki is a mess beyond
saving. Not a friend of defeatism, I took a look: The wiki currently has 2700
content pages, and the OOo wiki had >10.000 pages, when people said the same
there and I still got it cleaned up decently mostly single-handed(*).
As developers, we have actually have decent wiki pages but we should lead by
example for other teams. We currently have ~100 development wiki pages with
more than 1000 views each. If we focus on this should be able to keep that
reasonably clean without too much effort.
You find them sorted by views and linked for your convenience here:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/User:Bjoern-michaelsen/DevPagesCleanup-2013-10
What we should do is:
1/ DELETE pages that contain misleading content unless they can easily be fixed(**)
2/ Link as much as possible between pages to make them more discoverable
3/ Tag categories and the development menu on those ~everywhere
4/ If you wrote a awesome wikipage not on this list (less than 1000 views),
think about the "why": its likely going back to points 2 and 3
5/ As a last resort mark stuff as "obsolete and kept for historic
sentimentality" in red letters, but see point 1.
I hope that by leading by example we (developers) can motivate others to clean
up their part of the wiki too.
Best,
Bjoern
(*) with some 3000 edits, but yeah its possible.
(**) see this awesome lighting talk by Jorge Castro on the WHY:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nto7bdqxicI
esp. the "I rather have it rewritten by someone with current data" point
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just to make you curious, here are the top 30 development wiki pages by views:
169049 Development
136960 Development/Easy Hacks
85318 Development/BuildingOnLinux
53141 Development/GSoC/Ideas
47032 Development/Impress/RemoteHowTo
45720 Development/Easy Hacks/Bugzilla Whiteboard Statuses
37667 Development/Crazy Ideas
35544 Development/Developers
29856 Development/Easy Hacks/lists/by Difficulty
26964 Development/Code Overview
20424 Development/WidgetLayout
20010 Development/LibreOffice4
19926 Development/Easy Hacks/lists/by Required Skill
19695 Development/How to debug
18710 Development/Impress/Remote
17603 Development/Windows Build Dependencies
15396 Development/Weekly Summary
13913 Development/How to build/Configure options
12845 Development/Easy Hacks/Completed
11172 Development/Linux Build Dependencies
10093 Development/Really basic missing features and enhancements
9264 Development/FAQ
8979 Development/GSoC
8614 Development/zh-hans
8555 Development/String Classes
8079 Development/Patch Handling Guidelines
7909 Development/Use of MailList
7759 Development/Easy Hacks/Translation Of Comments
7731 Development/BuildingOnWindows
7668 Development/Default UI Improvements
for more see: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/User:Bjoern-michaelsen/DevPagesCleanup-2013-10
Context
- Development wiki spring (autumn) cleanup · bjoern
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