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This category is the "Main category". It should not contain articles directly and it should contain only the global categories, like Software, Hardware, etc. Kempelen
For the Openmoko wiki to be organized effectively it must use a good hierarchy of categories.
Getting things better organized will take time. An ideally organized hierarchy may not be possible, but significant improvements can still be made working from the existing structure.
A few principles should guide the reorganization:
So, if we were starting the wiki from scratch, we might choose a different organization, but, given that the wiki already contains thousands of pages, we can start the process of improving the organizational structure by working with what we have. That existing structure currently best lends itself to the following set of top-level categories:
Almost everything that could go into the wiki can appropriately be broadly categorized as falling into one of these. Pages about the handheld devices are largely about either hardware or software. Pages related to the people using and working on those devices are either related to people that work for Openmoko the corporation or are related to the user/developer community. The primary point of the wiki is to serve as documentation, so it seems an important top-level category too. Finally, some people will always need help understanding what a wiki is, how to use it, what the syntax for editing pages is, or how to get involved with maintaining and contributing to the wiki, so some Help pages should be prominent and easy to find.
Note that in the above, the currently overbroad Openmoko category is redefined to be specifically a counterpart to the Community category. Instead of listing every single page about the Openmoko software distribution (which can be better categorized under the Software category) the Openmoko category can include pages about the corporation, e.g., History, Employees, Legal, Sales, Sponsored Events, etc.
If one looks at the Categories category right now (August 2008) it roughly approximates this structure. By pressing the + button next to each top-level category one can see the 2nd-level subcategories under each and even those are beginning to have an almost reasonable structure. Work remains to be done. Individual pages and even category pages need to be categorized or recategorized to fit into something approximating this structure. Please join the effort with the above principles in mind. Once we get a mostly usable wiki we can think about a larger overhaul that might improve the existing structure, but for now, we need to just get the thing where people can actually find all the useful information that is buried in this wiki.