Hi, all. I've stumbled head-first into the marketing wiki, and noticed that it's not being used as a wiki should be. Particularly, there are a lot of awkward procedures being suggested that take three steps to do what can be done in one.
Already, I've created a template for the Marketing project. This is a box that has links to all of the important pages in the Marketing project, identifies the page as being a member of the Marketing project, and includes a [[Category:Marketing]] tag, so the user doesn't have to manually add one. Also view my user contributions page (click on my user name, then click the "user contributions" link on the left menu bar). I encourage you to visit [[Talk:Marketing]] to view my other suggestions regarding procedures listed in the Marketing page's guidelines. I've copied the text below. I have time this week to further organize and edit the pages. Let me know if you want me to. IMHO, the purpose of a wiki is to allow people to throw whatever they've got on the table, whether or not they're able to format it. Then others can come around and clean it up. From what I see, it looks like I'm the one to do that second bit. - RealGrouchy. Suggestions: (from [[Talk:Marketing]] Names of pages Firstly, we should be using [[Marketing/Pagename]], not [[Marketing--Pagename]], as the former is recognized by the Wiki software as being a subpage of [[Marketing]]. That way, a link to Marketing will be created automatically at the top of each page that is thusly formatted. (Incidentally, there are a lot of pages that aren't following this which I can fix soon if there is a desire for me to do so). Template:Marketing I've created a marketing template that we can add to all pages. This will help reduce the instructions in the guidelines for creating new pages, since it contains a link to the main "Marketing" page, as well as a Category:Marketing tag. I would like consensus to change the guidelines instructions to do so. Ibid. Furthermore, we may want to consider moving or removing the list of pages and categories on the Marketing page to focus attention to the topic at hand. Although this would mean also abandoning the descriptions. Complex process This whole "first ask, discuss, and gather consensus, then and only then create the page" is, frankly, stupid. It is awkward, confusing, and goes against the whole idea of using a wiki (that is, that you make something, and if someone else doesn't like it, they can take it down or change it). In my experience with project management, asking for comments on things is usually a futile endeavour. If anything, it will either get struck down (so we delete the page), or people have suggestions on how to do it (in which case they can edit the page). Let's assume the case of a fly-by suggestion: somebody comes along, has an idea, and wants to do it. They will have a much easier time if they just do it, than if they post a suggestion to the discussion page, send a message to the dev list, wait a couple of days, then get permission and do it. By that time, they've probably moved on to other projects. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
