9:59 p.m.
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Karsten Wade <kwade(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 10:44:17AM -0700, Mark Terranova wrote:
> Hello, I dont have lots of extra time, but, I am more than willing to help
> out with wiki help. Let me know what I can do.
Someone hopefully will correct me if I'm wrong, but ...
There are a handful of things that need to be done all over the wiki,
so if you've a part you are more interested in ... For example, the
Ambassadors pages could probably use a dose of:
* Look for Ambassador pages that are mis-categorized or not in a
category.
* Fix pages as per the wiki style guide ...
- Uh, do we have a canonical location for that, or should I
reference the one under [[User:Dafrito]]?
The style guide lives here for now:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Help:Style_guide
* Start to get a handle on what large gardening tasks need to be
done
on the Ambassador pages.
- Moving old pages to [[Archive:]]
- Renaming pages to searchable, findable, sane names
- Combining or splitting out pages
There are many, many Ambassador pages -- it might be one of the most
prolific wiki page creating groups. It could probably use more wiki
gardeners.
- Karsten
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Just a random thought: It'd be cool if these "wish list" or a "request
for editor" items lived somewhere on the wiki. I know there's a trac
instance, but I think that's a little more formal than what I'm
thinking about...
I'm thinking that there could be a page on the wiki for people can
post requests for editors. They could request content creations,
wikifying a page, prettying up a proposal, proofreading, or so forth.
Other viewers could comment on other requests: it'd just be a wiki
page, so it'd be fluid how the format would work. It would be this
asynchronous, open-ended confluence between users of the wiki and the
editors.
I think we'd be even better served by such a feature than Wikipedia is
served with their village pump, since our wiki is used and edited by a
broader range of tasks (such as FAQs, policies, proposals, etc.). It'd
provide a means for people to define how they want a document edited
without being too heavy-handed or formal. Right now, a lot of the
proposals, the drafts, etc. are essentially hands-off for revision
since editors don't want to break people's proposals. If we provided a
wish list, then people can request the level of collaboration that
they want: revising them, wikifying them, prettfiying them, without
affecting their content.
I think that it'd give a more fulfilling and more lively experience
regarding wiki contributions. Instead of editing a random page or
template, you can work on things that people have requested - this
fulfillment is why I've enjoyed doing the QA stuff as much as I have.
This list streamlines that process; instead of lurking in QA mailing
lists, the wiki pump serves as an invitation for new contributors to
get involved.
Finally, I think a pump or wish list or request list becomes an ear to
the users of the wiki community. We can see what bugs people, and what
doesn't, by what kinds of requests they make.
I'd be willing to write up a sample draft for this page, if it seems
like an interesting idea.
-- Aaron Faanes