On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org>wrote:
> FR web forum wrote: > >> I don't see a big advantage in terms of usability between the MWiki we >>> already have and any other CMS. >>> >> Well, why Extensions or Templates website don't use MWiki in this case? >> > > It is a different use case (even leaving historical reasons aside). For > example, tutorials are something that people could cooperate in writing and > that may get updated often, and this is best done on a wiki (or forum; at > least this is my understanding of it), while extensions for example are > closer to software releases. > > > You must think to end-users that have write a tutorial. >> > > I'm trying to, but, again, do you have a few examples? Maybe tutorials > that you wrote yourself and that would be difficult to upload to one of the > existing resources? > > > A Wiki need to have specific skill to publish. >> > > You are right if you mean that on MWiki it is unnecessarily long and > complex, for example, to upload attachments. Actually, it seems that the > Forum currently offers good possibilities for those who want to publish > tutorials: pages like > http://forum.openoffice.org/**en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=**67<http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=67> > http://forum.openoffice.org/**en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=74&t=**12426<http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=74&t=12426> > are done quite easily on the Forum, are very visible from search engines > and can be updated as often as needed. And if someone wants to attach a PDF > version this can be done easily. > > What would the biggest advantage be for you? Ease of use (for users who > wrote a tutorial and want to publish it) or visibility (like having a > dedicated tutorials.openoffice.org website where we consolidate all > tutorials)? And how many tutorials could it be reasonable to have? Could we > reach hundreds of tutorials, for example? > > Regards, > Andrea. > > > ------------------------------**------------------------------**--------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > dev-unsubscribe@openoffice.**apache.org<dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org> > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > Even though I do find the wiki cumbersome at times, I also often wonder if we installed some different/navigation tools (I asked about this a long time ago and maybe now's the time to go exploring) that would help with some of this. This is why I like the cwiki navigation -- you don't need to link TO anything. Just put whatever it is under a category and it's relatively easy to find. In reference to establishing a link to "tutorials.openoffice.org". Could this be done with a rewrite to a specific area on the wiki? I think maybe it could. At this point, given the services like this we already use, Confluence, MediaWiki, thinking about yet another one doesn't seem like a good approach to me. Converting from one to something else might be reasonable but not introducing something else. We have quite a collection of tutorials already on wiki.openoffice.org. I think we need to consider our current resources -- platforms, people -- carefully. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MzK "Achieving happiness requires the right combination of Zen and Zin."
