Hi, at the conference, I heard multiple times that the wiki is a mess beyond saving. Not a friend of defeatism, I took a look: The wiki currently has 2700 content pages, and the OOo wiki had >10.000 pages, when people said the same there and I still got it cleaned up decently mostly single-handed(*).
As developers, we have actually have decent wiki pages but we should lead by example for other teams. We currently have ~100 development wiki pages with more than 1000 views each. If we focus on this should be able to keep that reasonably clean without too much effort. You find them sorted by views and linked for your convenience here: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/User:Bjoern-michaelsen/DevPagesCleanup-2013-10 What we should do is: 1/ DELETE pages that contain misleading content unless they can easily be fixed(**) 2/ Link as much as possible between pages to make them more discoverable 3/ Tag categories and the development menu on those ~everywhere 4/ If you wrote a awesome wikipage not on this list (less than 1000 views), think about the "why": its likely going back to points 2 and 3 5/ As a last resort mark stuff as "obsolete and kept for historic sentimentality" in red letters, but see point 1. I hope that by leading by example we (developers) can motivate others to clean up their part of the wiki too. Best, Bjoern (*) with some 3000 edits, but yeah its possible. (**) see this awesome lighting talk by Jorge Castro on the WHY: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nto7bdqxicI esp. the "I rather have it rewritten by someone with current data" point === just to make you curious, here are the top 30 development wiki pages by views: 169049 Development 136960 Development/Easy Hacks 85318 Development/BuildingOnLinux 53141 Development/GSoC/Ideas 47032 Development/Impress/RemoteHowTo 45720 Development/Easy Hacks/Bugzilla Whiteboard Statuses 37667 Development/Crazy Ideas 35544 Development/Developers 29856 Development/Easy Hacks/lists/by Difficulty 26964 Development/Code Overview 20424 Development/WidgetLayout 20010 Development/LibreOffice4 19926 Development/Easy Hacks/lists/by Required Skill 19695 Development/How to debug 18710 Development/Impress/Remote 17603 Development/Windows Build Dependencies 15396 Development/Weekly Summary 13913 Development/How to build/Configure options 12845 Development/Easy Hacks/Completed 11172 Development/Linux Build Dependencies 10093 Development/Really basic missing features and enhancements 9264 Development/FAQ 8979 Development/GSoC 8614 Development/zh-hans 8555 Development/String Classes 8079 Development/Patch Handling Guidelines 7909 Development/Use of MailList 7759 Development/Easy Hacks/Translation Of Comments 7731 Development/BuildingOnWindows 7668 Development/Default UI Improvements for more see: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/User:Bjoern-michaelsen/DevPagesCleanup-2013-10 _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
