Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote:
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...
I would appreciate if this change be made soon...
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).
I have now created a FAQ section on the wiki.
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?
We are now number 6 on google for "linux raid". Most of the other top pages
are quite old info, say 4 to 8 years old, and not mentioning mdadm nor
raid10. I would like to do some work to get rid of the outdated info, as
it is quite bad guidance to users. I have contacted a number of the
authors for the other top pages, but to no avail.
I have then looked at who is referencing the top pages, via the Google
"link: URL" feature. For our own pages this is a sad story. Almost
nobody but ourselves are referencing it. That is, the links are mostly
our own pages referencing our own pages, or mail archive pages of
linux-raid ML referencing the wiki.
I would really like to have this improved. That is, if people on this ML
could add links to http://linux-raid.osdl.org/ eg from their home pages
- "I am participating in the Linux kernel RAID mailing list with wiki
pages at http://linux-raid.osdl.org/"; and/or include a reference to the
URL when discussing RAID issues on other fora.
Just a public thanks and "please do" for this. I will update my
appropriate pages with this on the next update.
--
Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
"Woe unto the statesman who makes war without a reason that will still
be valid when the war is over..." Otto von Bismark
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