First, I'd like to welcome you all to the new Fedora Websites mailing list. The purpose of this list is discussion related to the formal Fedora websites (fedoraproject.org and fedora.redhat.com) and to allow a forum for communication between the contributors and maintainers of these sites and the maintainers of third-party Fedora-related websites. To start off, we have a few items to address. Consider these the early agenda for this list and the group it represents. Additions and suggestions are welcome. 1. The List of Fedora Community Websites Scott Glaser has begun working on a list [1] of Fedora Community Websites that will be added to the Communicate page [2] of the wiki. If you have any suggestions for this list, please contact him. He will also need assistance in deciding what sorts of sites should be included. If you have any remarks to that end, he will be happy to hear them in #fedora-docs on freenode. Look for Sonar_Guy. 2. Deprecation of fedora.redhat.com Ongoing efforts have been underway to place all critical content on the fedoraproject.org wiki and to prepare the wiki to supplant the current fedora.redhat.com website as the primary site for the Project. Much of the content from f.r.c has already been duplicated on the wiki, but there are still many pieces that have yet to be moved. One of the bigger concerns is publishing the documentation produced by the Docs Project on the wiki. Another key concern is tightening security and establishing policies for key wiki pages, such as those which are highest traffic or contain legal information. 3. Technical contacts and maintainers for wiki pages The idea of marking pages on the wiki using comments to list technical contacts/maintainers for those pages has been discussed on fedora-docs-list. The idea is simple: have a maintainer assigned to each page, who is responsible for keeping that page up-to-date and generally taking care of it. For more details, please see the fedora-docs-list archives [3]. 4. Wiki translation Yuan Yijun has jumped ahead of the rest of us and begun working on a zh_CN translation of the wiki. So far, his work has not been in line with the translation ideas discussed so far. We need to decide just how we want to handle the wiki translation, including what kind of structure we want to use, policies regarding translation of sensitive materials, and what parts of the wiki should (not) be translated. Obviously, there is interest in getting this done. We have had individuals interested specifically in Japanese, Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese and French translations all try to get things moving. It's time to figure out how this is going to be done. 5. Usability improvements on the wiki There have been several good suggestions for improvements to the wiki. First, there was the idea of making a more general-purpose FrontPage to better serve visitors. Then, assorted improvements for the wiki's themes. A lot of progress has been made, lets see what else needs to be done. The latest idea, courtesy of Rahul Sundaram, is the restoration of the 'Parent' links provided by MoinMoin's default themes. These links, which allow a visitor to quickly browse to any page's parent in the hierarchy, disappeared during the creation of the kindofblue/sinorca4moin theme. On a final note, if you have not already done so, you might want to consider signing up for the 'web' group in the Fedora Account System and adding yourself to the list on the wiki [4] of people interested in working on the Fedora websites. Elliot Lee was kind enough to start that page as a first step in coordinating work on the Fedora websites. He had an excellent point, and one that is served well by this new mailing list: it is time that all the various efforts to improve Fedora on the web be coordinated so that they may move forward more efficiently. Lets do it! [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ScottGlaser - See the bottom of the page [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate [3] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-docs-list/2005-October/msg00111.html [4] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Websites -- Patrick "The N-Man" Barnes nman64@xxxxxxxxx www.n-man.com --
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