On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 06:21:08PM +0000, David Greaves wrote: > Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote: > > I would then like that to be reflected in the main page. > > I would rather that this be called "Howto and FAQ - Linux raid" > > than "Main Page - Linux Raid". Is that possible? > > Just like C has a main() wiki's have a Main Page :) > > I guess it could be changed but I think it involves editing the Mediawiki config > - maybe next time I'm in there... OK, good. > > > And then, how do we structure the pages? I think we need a new section > > for the FAQ. > > By all means create an FAQ page and link to answers or other relevant sections > of the wiki. Bear in mind that this is a reference work and whilst it may > contain tutorials the idea is that it contains (reasonably) authoritative > information about the linux raid subsystem (linking to the source, kernel docs > or man pages if that's more appropriate). Yes, I will be conservative and robust in what I write there. > > And then I would like a clearer statement on the relation between the > > linux-raid mailing list and the pages, right in the top of the main page. > The relationship is loose - the statement as it stands describes the current > state of affairs. If Neil feels that he could or would like to help the case by > declaring a more official relationship then that's his call. To be fair I work > on these pages on and off as the mood takes me :) if I was Neil I'd be keeping > an eye on it and waiting for the right level of community involvement. OK, I will only state something like the usual FAQ thing: please consult the FAQ before submitting questions to the list. > > I have had a look at other search engines, yahoo and msn. > > Our pages do show up within the 10 first hits for "linux raid". > > So that is not that bad. Still, Google has the > > http://linux-raid.osdl.org/ page as number 127. That is very bad. > > Maybe something about it being referenced from wikipedia? > > I'm not an expert at gaming the search engines - more than happy to do rational > things like linking from Wikipedia and other reference sites. > > I am sad that I've had such a poor response from the other linux documentation > sites... maybe a Slashdot article not so much about doc-rot but about the > difficulty of combating doc-rot would help... > > Maybe they'd take more notice if I said "the linux raid subsystem maintainer > says..." - dunno. I think we should just contact some more people... And then do some linking ourselves. Best regards Keld - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
