Wiki Issues
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Wiki Pages
Pages capable of development
- Openmoko:Community Portal
- Documentation
- AGPSD (Needs new GPS info)
- AR6K (Needs more info)
- GTA02 partitions: seems to be about the GTA01; could someone with a GTA02 please correct the partition sizes and names?
Redundant Pages
- There are several pages concerning Openmoko compatible service providers:
- Carriers, most up-to-date, confirmed service providers.
- Openmoko compatible cellphone providers
- Neo1973 compatible cellphone providers
- I suggest merging the editing help pages:
- pages about GPS:
- applications:
Tidy up
- Wishlist:Text Input - tidy up/sort, give short feedback to each method
- Booting_from_SD - tidy up and a rewrite
Pages proposed for deletion
Pages that especially need work
- Category:Candidates for speedy deletion
- Special:Lonelypages - Orphaned pages
- Special:DoubleRedirects - Pages that redirect to a redirected page
- Special:Popularpages - Pages that get viewed a lot
- Special:Ancientpages - Old pages
- Special:Newpages - New pages
- Special:Wantedpages - Wanted pages
- Special:Uncategorizedpages
- Special:Shortpages - Informationally light pages
- Special:BrokenRedirects - Broken redirects
Categories
General issues with categories
- Please read wikipedia Categorization page and FAQ
- There are way too many categories.
- The categories index is static and therefore out of date.
- The wiki index is another static categorization. It is therefore out of date. Moreover, it seems strictly hierarchical, while actually pages should be described with multiple categories, and categories can have multiple parents.
- There should be a small number of a orthogonal category trees, each describing one consistent conceptual taxonomy.
- Ideally categories should not include language, if we don't do so the list of pages is cluttered.
- There should be only one category taxonomy for the "Neo type" with subcategories "FreeRunner", "Neo1973", "GTA03"... Otherwise, categories should not include the Neo type.
- Another big taxonomy can be based on the layers model. "Hardware", "Drivers", "Operating system", "Framework", "Applications", "Distributions". With many subcategories here.
- A taxonomy of technical level of expertise "General public", "Beginners", "Users", "Experts".
- A taxonomy by function or by subsystem: "Phone", "Wifi", "GPS/GPRS modem", "USB", "Bluetooth", "Accelerometers", "Audio", "Power", "SD card", "Serial bus", "Display", "Accessories", "Debug board"
- A taxonomy by maturity: "Wishlist", "Experimental", "Unstable", "Testing", "Stable".
MinhHaDuong 10:47, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
Lists now implemented as categories
These Pages are now implemented as categories, thus the unmaintaned pages could be removed. - Kempelen
- Advanced_End-user: use Category:User instead (Actually User is a too general name, thus new one should be created maybe Kempelen)
- Basic_End-user: use Category:User instead
- System_Developer: use Category:System_Developers instead
- Application_Developer: use Category:Application_Developer instead
Note that as a matter of principle, lists and categories are two complementary ways to organize information. We should strive to have both excellent lists AND categories in the wiki.
Too general category names
These end up in mixed content. They could be removed and content migrated to more specific category names.
Category to delete | Yes votes | No votes |
---|---|---|
Category:Documentation | Kempelen, Marko Knöbl | |
Category:Information | Kempelen, Marko Knöbl | |
Category:Openmoko(1) | Kempelen, Marko Knöbl | |
Category:Technical | Kempelen, Marko Knöbl |
(1) We've moved Openmoko Inc related info from Openmoko to a new Openmoko Inc category. This was the original aim of the Openmoko category when it was created.
The Category:ideas
Problem 1: Many pages have Wishlist: in the title. This syntax is potentially confusing because there is no Wishlist: namespace. Should we suggest a mass rename from "Wishlist:(.*)" to "Ideas - \1" ? Or really create a Wishlist: namespace for vaporware ?
Problem 2: A significant minority of pages in the "Category:ideas" are missing the prefix in the title.
Problem 3: There are two templates, { { Wishlist } } and { { Unimplemented } } . Is that unnecessary redundancy, or is there a subtle distinction .
Category structure
Editing: (2008/08/29) This page is being edited by Kempelen: Discovering category structure If this note persists without edits in the history, feel free to remove the Editing template from the page. |
Names are votes. See also: Too general category names above.
Top level categories.
- Category:Categories - container for top level categories.
- Category:Community
- Category:Documentation (Remove: Kempelen)
- Category:Hardware
- Category:Help
- Category:Information - (Remove: Kempelen)
- Category:Openmoko - (Remove: Kempelen)
- Category:Policy - Developer policies (OK: Kempelen)
- Category:Software - (OK: Kempelen)
- Category:Technical - (Remove: Kempelen)
- Category:ToDo - The TODO template adds here (OK: Kempelen)
- Category:User's Manual -
Subcategories of Software. Looks well designed:
- Category:Software - Articles should not be added here directly.
- Category:Applications - (OK: Kempelen)
- Category:Distributions - (OK: Kempelen)
- Category:Software (non openmoko) - (OK: Kempelen)
Applications category contains subcategories for various application groups, like GPS, Networking... This may be a problem if e.g. GPS belongs to Applications and Hardware too (and most of these stuff will belong to both). Maybe we could simply add articles to Applications AND GPS, which won't be subcategories of each other. Kempelen 20:54, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
Basic End User and Advanced End User categories may need to be created instead User, which is not enough specific term. Kempelen
DolfjeBot1 proposals
Their is a bot on the openmoko wiki that's controlled by User:Dolfje. If you have tasks for the bot, please put them here.
Wiki engine issues
Can we please install/fix the following features for this wiki:
- Math - the Tex math markup does not work currently. Test:
- <math> z =\left (1-\left(\frac{P_{ind}}{101.325}\right)^{0.190263} \right ) \times \frac{87.828}{0.00198122} </math>
- <math> P_{ind} </math>
- Syntax Highlighting - makes code much more readable
- GraphViz works with the commonly known dot language - it allows us to draw graphs using easy markup.
- AnyWikiDraw allows us to draw svg diagrams directly on the wiki page.
- Make visited links a different color.
Change Sitename
The name of this wiki is currently "Openmoko". I think it should be "Openmoko Wiki" for the following reasons:
- The other parts of this site (Planet, Projects, Docs) have similar names
- Media Wiki automatically creates a namespace for the Sitename (currently "Openmoko"). This means that content of pages beginning with "Openmoko:" cannot be found through the normal search function of this wiki. (At the moment there are six pages of this kind: Openmoko:About, Openmoko:Community Portal, Openmoko:Current events, Openmoko:Searching, Openmoko:Current events/it, Openmoko:Privacy policy)--Marko Knöbl 18:33, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
Yes votes: Marko Knöbl, Minh
No votes:
Organize translations
I suggest moving the translations to sub-wikis, like the way wikipedia does it. Currently all translations show up in searches and under category-lists. --Johndoesacc 12:03, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
Rejected requests
When a requested Wiki Issue is voted for not to be done, it must be moved here, to make sure it won't get continously requested again.
- Don't translate the wiki - rejected proposed by Minime August 2007, moved to rejected by Kempelen August 2008: the Documentation Team looks to support the idea.
- Use namespaces to separate user-oriented and developper-oriented content. Assuming the default namespace is user-oriented that would exclude developper-oriented page from searches. And it can't be done purely in the wiki, it needs admin time. Better to use categories and a prefix in the page name (like BlendeWiki).