Oh, and probably important as well: while I am very interested in seeing improvements to the wiki, I am not in a position to actually bring the change about. I personally have enough to do as it is. So... if you care as well, please seriously consider stepping up and offer a helping hand. Chance are nothing will change otherwise :)
Thanks! Geert On donderdag 18 mei 2017 19:25:20 CEST Geert Janssens wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
