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Email

fpiat@klabs.be (put DEBIAN_WIKI in the subject.)

Irc

franklin on irc.debian.org/ (I'm not often connected)

Homepage

http://www.klabs.be/~fpiat/

Location

Near Paris, France (was near Lille)

My Packages

qa.debian.org

Debian Wiki

  • X-( Are you Mad at me ? If you got mad because of some "clean-up" i have made, please :

    1. Undo and do how you feel it would be the best for wiki.debian.org.

    2. 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).

    3. 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 - use Glossary for Debian specific terms.

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..)

Hints and tips

Here's the top ten things I do on a system (user preferences):

  • Edit ~/.bashrc
    • Enable export LS_OPTIONS='--color=auto' ; eval "`dircolors`" ; alias ls='ls $LS_OPTIONS'

    • Enable shell completion, by appending source /etc/bash_completion

  • Install vim, then enable some options in /etc/vim/vimrc (especially set incsearch, syntax on, and set showmatch. see my .vimrc).

  • Install mc, screen, xnest, fast-user-switch-applet, iotop, htop

  • Enable default saved in /boot/grub/menu.lst

  • Install some mozilla's : xul-ext-webdeveloper, xul-ext-firebug

My log on the Wiki

Here's a very incomplete log of my activities on this wiki :

2008-06-07

Ask improvements to manpages.debian.net (supporting manpages names with dash, plus an points).
Then update all pages to use DebianMan Interwiki link.

2009-04-18

Cleanup CategoryHomepage pages (ensure homepage match the wiki-account's name). ~30 pages. : Cleanup obsolete/oudated pages + fix links . ~100 pages.

2009-04-10

Create HowTo/ChangeHostname

Migrate Grub/*.manpage to upstream.
2009-03-26

Wiki was upgraded. Fix { {{{#!/bin/sh } of ~30 pages.

2009-03-21
Wiki was upgraded. Update Debian "official material" banner of ~70 pages.
Wiki was upgraded. Fix embedded images.
2009-03-20

Banner for non-free software, like skype and Opera.

Wiki was upgraded. Drop old moinmoin Spanish help pages.
Wiki was upgraded. Update Debian "official material" banner of ~50 pages.
2003-03-19

Initial DebianWiki/MigratedToMoinmoin17 page.

2009-03-18

Initial Teams/DebianWiki page.

2009-03-17

Wiki was upgraded. Fix TableOfContent of ~50 pages

2009-03-16

Wiki was upgraded. Adapt some MoinMoin/GeneratePdf

2009-02-

Add framebuffer to ScreenShots.

2009-02-14

Major rewrite of Java.

2009-02-08
Update supported devices on Lenny
2009-02-06

Update pages for Lenny. DeviceDatabase/USB, DeviceDatabase/PCI, DevFAQ, HowToIdentifyADevice/USB,

2009-01-25

Minor cleanup of PPP, pppd, wvdial, ifconfig, DialupConf and related pages.

2009-01-24

Major improvements of hal

2009-01-23

Create InstallingDebianOn/Thinkpad/T400/lenny

Create InstallingDebianOn/Thinkpad/Trackpoint

2009-01-17

Cleanup (CategoryProposedDeletion).

2009-01-17

Proposing a structure for CategoryProprietarySoftware (on debian-www).

2009-01-15

testing-proposed-updates patch to fix 510012 .

2009-01-12

research to embed images.. which lad to DebianWiki/EditorGuide#screenshots

2009-01-12

stable-proposed-updates to fix 511416 and 504562 2009-01-11 :: Create DiscussionsAfterLenny/Sections.

2009-01-01

Major rewrite of WindowsEquivalent.

2009-01-08

Major rewrite of tasksel, Gnome and KDE

2009-01-06

modinfo-devnames script to list supported devices.

2009-01-04
New wiki maintenance/monitoring scripts.
2009-01-04
Cleanup old discussions pages
2009-01-04

Start preparing Migration to Lenny's moin 1.7.

2009-01-03

New VersionControlSystem, and celanup/rewrite/refactor related pages (git, SVN...)

2008-12-14

DebConf9 dates are confirmed

2008-12-04

Major rewrite of EtchAndAHalf.

2008-11-25

Create DebianWiki/History.

2008-11-01
Cleanup 2008-08-05 ~ 2008-10-24.
2008-10-29

Create Firmware page.

2008-10-28

Create WiFi/HowToUse page.

2008-10-19

Create InstallingDebianOn/Thinkpad/T60/lenny page.

2008-10-19

Create ?Kernel/Oops page.

2008-09-13
Clean-up dozens of pages related to the kernel.
2008-09-13

Create/Refactor Modules page.

2008-09-01

create ?Schedule page.

2008-09-01

Create NewInSqueeze

2008-08-25
Cleanup lots of dummy pages related to packaging.
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

Update InstallingDebianOn/VMs/MicrosoftVirtualPc2007/etch

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

create LennyReleaseRecertificationSummary.

2008-05-19

Improve ?DebianLive/HowTo/SmallSizeImage.

2008-05-12

create ?sky2 module page.

2008-05-07

create pkg/README.DebianHeader, ?pkg/README.DebianTemplate

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

?DebianHosting/Dedibox

2008-02-22
Migrate !DebianWiki/* Discussion to debian-www mailing list.
2008-02-22

?DebianHosting/Ovh/RPS

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

create ?DebianLive/HowTo/SmallSizeImage

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

/!\ 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.

New wikipages ideas

Theme

More on http://www.google.com/search?q=inurl:TitleIndex+-inurl:trac.

Also, Apache.org is caching their wiki pages.

My Todo for Debian

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