----- Original Message ----- > On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 10:33:27 -0400 > Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > 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 wonder if there's a way we can make the distinction more obvious, > > and steer people appropriately? > > Well, mediawiki does have 'namespaces'... we have some things seperated > out in those... ie, QA and packaging and Legal, but that doesn't really > help too much (it's mostly useful for permissions). > > We could run multiple wiki's... but that increases support costs and > also means moving drafts to 'real' is more difficult. No, please, no! ;-). > The wiki search function is horrible and always has been. ;( Is it just related to our instance (because of bloat we have) or it's just impossible to have working search at all? I can see some wikis that are not as bad as our is but usually it's fail to be honest... Jaroslav > We at some point before too long want to move the wiki to a postgres > backend (it's using mysql now), and so if we wanted to make radical > changes that would be the time to do so. ;) > > kevin > > -- > websites mailing list > websites@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/websites -- websites mailing list websites@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/websites
