Debian Wiki
Are you Mad at me ? If you got mad because of some "clean-up" i have made, please : Undo and do how you feel it would be the best for wiki.debian.org.
Forgive me. I am not doing it because it's funny (trust me, it isn't funny to spend hours removing or merging pages). I'am not willing to bother people (I know that some people spent quite some time writing those pages).
- Read more below to understand why i am doing this.
Some ideas about what Debian Wiki is :
Focus on what's useful to Debian - is the page useful ? is the page related to debian ?
Some ideas about what Debian Wiki isn't:
wiki.d.o isn't www.debian.org/doc/ - avoid duplicating the official documentation
wiki.d.o isn't packages.debian.org - don't just duplicate package description and meta-data here.
wiki.d.o isn't a manpages repository. - don't just duplicate a manpage here
wiki.d.o isn't wikipedia - link to wikipedia, rather duplicating content here (especially for non-debian specific)
wiki.d.o isn't dictionary - don't create a page to merely define a term. link to online dictionary if needed.
wiki.d.o isn't jargon file - same as dictionary and wikipedia above.
Some best practice for wiki editors :
less is more : Perfection is not when there is nothing to add, but when there is nothing to remove. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery). To put it another way, Once you have finished to write a page, it's time to consider to make it shorter
Obsolete content should be 1)Updated 2) Deleted ... or exceptionally, 3)Preserved for Historical purposed (and marked as such). note: oldstable isn't obsolete content, it IS current.
- Subscribe to the page you are interested in.
- recommend the use of proper terms (X11, XWindow and Xorg aren't interchangeable words..)
Theme
Current wiki.d.o layout (theme) isn't very nice, still Moinmoin can be nice. some ideas ThemeMarket, ScreenShots:
http://wiki.winehq.org/ (I'm not fan of the colors though)
http://www.handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/TitleIndex This one is very clean
http://wiki.ethereal.com/TitleIndex some good ideas here too
More on http://www.google.com/search?q=inurl:TitleIndex+-inurl:trac.
Also, Apache.org is caching their wiki pages.
.plan
Get a new layout by Lenny
- More page merging and cleanup.
- More Content
My log
Here's a very incomplete log of my activities on this wiki :
- 2008-07-16
Rsyslog start user point of view.
- 2008-07-15
create keyring.debian.org (page).
- 2008-07-14
- Templates page cleanup (delete, sync, align to policy...).
Cleanup virtualisation pages (SystemVirtualization, QEMU, VirtualBox, Win4Lin, VMware, LinuxVserver)
- 2008-07-13
- Create Windows Server Hyper V
- 2008-07-06
cleanup FrontPages (fix links...)
- 2008-06-27
create AptProtocol
- 2008-06-24
create MoinMoin/GeneratePdf
- 2008-06-22
(re-)create NewInEtch
- 2008-06-17
add Debian Installer GUI ScreenShots
- 2008-06-03
create/reorganiseg M68k/* page (see http://lists.debian.org/debian-68k/2008/06/msg00001.html debian-68k)
- 2008-05-31
- 2008-05-19
Improve DebianLive/HowTo/SmallSizeImage.
- 2008-05-12
create sky2 module page.
- 2008-05-07
- 2008-05-06
Update DeviceDatabase/USB, and DeviceDatabase/PCI
- 2008-05-05
Improve ModulesAll (actually list all modules ! ).
- 2008-05-03
create Tftp page.
- 2008-05-01
multiple NewInLenny contributions.
- 2008-04-18
create Hibernation page.
- 2008-04-05
create StableProposedUpdates
- 2008-04-06
create Linda is gone page. + cleanup references to linda.
- 2008-02-27
The very old, and very duplicate wiki structure "DebianWikiTopics" is now gone. Champagne !
- 2008-02-26
Migrate DebConf/* pages to wiki.debconf.org.
- 2008-02-22
- 2008-02-22
Migrate DebianWiki/* Discussion to debian-www mailing list.
- 2008-02-22
- 2008-01-27
Ask improvements to manpages.debian.net (supporting, http://manpages.debian.net/man/1/bash syntax )
- 2008-01-27
create DEHS.
- 2008-01-23
create Grub/Grub2 pages.
- 2008-01-13
create Grub/SplashImage
- 2008-01-13
ModulesAll, major improvement.
- 2008-01-10
- '07 Q4 cleanup.
- 2008-01-07
create DebianWiki/Browsing.
- 2007-12-30
create Opera.
- 2007-12-16
create DeviceDatabase/USB, DeviceDatabase/PCI
- 2007-12-15
create ipw2200
- 2007-12-14
rewrite LSB
- 2007-11-24
create DebianWiki/TranslationNamespace.
- 2007-11-21
InstallingDebianOn : Let me write here what I think about my DebianOn initiative on this wiki (since DebConf7, and I talked to Petter Reinholdtsen +talk1 : It's broken by design : It should be in a database ! (i.e queryable ; statistics ; much easier to report with an assistant, etc.)
- 2007-11-17
create iwlwifi
- 2007-11-10
- 2007-11-01
create iSCSI, iSCSI/iscsitarget, iSCSI/open-iscsi pages
- 2007-10-31
create CategoryPermalink, then tagging many pages.
- 2007-10-23
create rt.debian.org page
- 2007-10-07
DebianWiki pages started.
add GUI to HowToIdentifyADevice/* (thanks to SalokineTerata)
DebianWiki/WikiVote page started.- 2007-09-30
ModuleAssistant / major improvements.
- 2007-09-27
DebianReleases "child" pages are completed (good enough for now, at least).
- 2007-09-18
Howto make a ScreenShots page.
- 2007-09-16
improve and add links to talks for DebConf*
- 2007-09-08
- converted wiki.debian.net links to wiki.debian.org.
- 2007-09-07
cleanup old RemoteWikiLinks (DebianPackage, DebianPts, DebianPackages, bts )
- 2007-08-14
InstallingEtchStepByStep project started.
- 2007-08-14
- Glossary started.
I stop updating my log, i think you have the idea : I intend to cleanup wiki.d.o !
- 2007-08-08
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what about wiki-pages for packages ? looks like duplicate with packages.debian.org to me. (see MetaPackages in http://wiki.debian.org/nanos?action=recall&rev=1 ) - 2007-08-07
Merged "From Windows To Debian" and FromWindowsToDebian (plus related cleanup)
Merged *X_Window_System*
Merged *WindowManager*
Merged *Desktop environment*- 2007-08-06
Prepare the merged DotNetFrontPage, OldFrontPage to FrontPage
- 2007-08-06
- Major cleanup around "Debian Enterprise" pages.
- 2007-08-05
Merged WikiUsers and DebianUsers
- 2007-08-05
InterWiki Migration : Cleaning-up "RemoteWikiURL" links from old wiki.d.o (based on kwiki).
RemoteWikiURL were used in http://zwiki.org/ to declare others wiki. (many wiki pages were needed in thoses zwiki days.. deprecated today)- 2007-06-05
- HowToIdentifyADevice pages started
- 2007-05-28
InstallingDebianOn project started.
My ToDo
- continue cleaning pages...
Various pages require some work / cleanup :
coreutils - Merge with PrincipalCommands - ConsoleSurvival <=> Console - See Debian's qref PackageManagement PackageInstallTips,DebianPackage,apt-get,AptGet About / HelpForBeginners <= merge w/ NewBoot + HelpWanted Merge : Neo + UsefulLinux Merge : "From Windows To Debian" + WindowsEquivalent + WinAppEquivalents UTF-8 update status. DistUpgradeIssues (UnofficialSargeReleaseIssues) what about Etch ? (Xorg ; Apache...)
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