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I've been thinking a little bit about why our collaborative
documenation,
and, you know, why it's a painful mess despite all of the awesome interested
people we have. I think that part of it is that our wiki is intimidating,
and I think that's partly because we use the wiki in different ways all
together:
1. End-user and developer documentation that isn't as formalized as that
at
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/ but is still very useful.
2. Workspace for communication, like the features / changes pages, the
font request workflow, or even just the packages wishlist.
3. Free-for-all drafts and ideas that may eventually turn into one of the
above and may go no where, but shouldn't really be mixed in because
it's not at that level.
I'd say these are valid use cases for Wiki - and I'm not saying we can't
do better job to make sure people understand which of the above sections
they are. But we have bigger problems - after years, even these, previously
valid uses got too outdated, that it probably does not make sense to store
them (I know, wiki & history), or at least not be visible to search (has
anyone ever tried to use it at all ;-)?.
So for me, the first step would be to clean up old mess, make search
available again, review current information (especially for stuff that's
in the main categories). Having some way to sort out information would
cherry on top of our wiki to make users happy :)
Jaroslav
I wonder if there's a way we can make the distinction more
obvious, and
steer people appropriately?
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Matthew Miller ☁☁☁ Fedora Cloud Architect ☁☁☁ <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org>
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