Hi, A recent thread on a page in our wiki on lots raised the potential pitfall of having draft pages in our wiki as rightfully pointed out by David T.
I don't consider me a wiki maintainer really though I have contributed to some pages. This minor incident did get me thinking though. And I want to discuss the following question with a broader audience: What do we want our wiki to be ? A few statistics [0] for those interested in contributing to this discussion: 1. The wiki currently has 221 real content pages [1] of varying quality and usefulness. 2. In addition there are 310 additional related pages like redirects, talk pages,... 3. There are 12 admins, of which only a handful is still active as far as I know (and I didn't know *I* was one of them) 4. Looking at the content pages list, I find about 53 pages are ancient release announcements or readme files for obsolete gnucash versions. In its current form it's a mixed bag of all kinds of content - pages attempting to guide contributors in helping out in different forms - pages attempting to help users with common or less common issues - reports of past events - some of these pages are generic, others are platform dependent,... - however most pages don't specify their intent clearly so in several cases it's difficult to judge whether the page is for what you are looking for or not - some pages have current information, others are for historical interest only - ... So what do we want to achieve with the wiki ? Do we manage to achieve it ? I believe we would be beneficial find an answer to these questions so we can more clearly guide the content creation in the wiki. >From what I see the wiki is currently rather chaotic. I realize wikis usually are. However I think a wiki can be more. So a few first suggestions: - At the very least the content that's there could do with some structuring (again a concept not native to wikis), for example by making better use of well thought out categories. - Depending on the answer to my first question, I would also propose to drop certain pages, to start with the obsolete announcements and README pages. >From there I'm very open to other suggestions to improve it. Please join in! Regards, Geert [0] Gathered from here: http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Special:Statistics [1] http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/index.php? title=Special:AllPages&hideredirects=1 _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
