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= 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.
  1. '''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).
  1. Read more below to understand why i am doing this.
''Some ideas about what Debian Wiki '''is''' :''
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= 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''' :''
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Some best practice for wiki editors :
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Some best practice for wiki editors :
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 Current wiki.d.o layout (theme) isn't very nice, still Moinmoin can be nice. some ideas [http://moinmo.in/ThemeMarket ThemeMarket], [http://moinmo.in/MoinMoinScreenShots ScreenShots]:   . Current wiki.d.o layout (theme) isn't very nice, still Moinmoin can be nice. some ideas [http://moinmo.in/ThemeMarket ThemeMarket], [http://moinmo.in/MoinMoinScreenShots ScreenShots]:
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More on [http://www.google.com/search?q=inurl:TitleIndex+-inurl:trac]. More on http://www.google.com/search?q=inurl:TitleIndex+-inurl:trac.
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  *  see WantedPages   * see WantedPages
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  * ''then'' : use a search engines for external broken links, like [http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=%22This+page+does+not+exist+yet.+You+can+create+a+new+empty+page%22+site%3Awiki.debian.org ?p="This+page+does+not+exist+yet"+site=wiki.debian.org]   * ''then'' : use a search engines for external broken links, like [http://search.yahoo.com/search?p="This+page+does+not+exist+yet.+You+can+create+a+new+empty+page"+site:wiki.debian.org ?p="This+page+does+not+exist+yet"+site=wiki.debian.org]
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 2008-01-27 :: Ask improvements to manpages.debian.net (supporting, [http://manpages.debian.net/man/1/bash] syntax )  2008-01-27 :: Ask improvements to manpages.debian.net (supporting, http://manpages.debian.net/man/1/bash syntax )
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 2008-01-13 :: ["ModulesAll"], major improvement.  2008-01-13 :: ModulesAll, major improvement.
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 2007-11-24 :: create ["DebianWiki/TranslationNamespace"].  2007-11-24 :: create DebianWiki/TranslationNamespace.
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 2007-11-10 :: create ["DebianLive/HowTo/SmallSizeImage"]  2007-11-10 :: create DebianLive/HowTo/SmallSizeImage
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 2007-10-31 :: create ["CategoryPermalink"], then tagging many pages.  2007-10-31 :: create CategoryPermalink, then tagging many pages.
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 2007-10-07 :: ["DebianWiki"] pages started.[[BR]] add GUI to HowToIdentifyADevice/* (thanks to SalokineTerata) [[BR]] DebianWiki/WikiVote page started.  2007-10-07 :: DebianWiki pages started.[[BR]] add GUI to HowToIdentifyADevice/* (thanks to SalokineTerata) [[BR]] DebianWiki/WikiVote page started.
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 2007-09-18 :: Howto make a ["ScreenShots"] page.
 2007-09-16 :: improve and add links to talks for DebConf* 
 2007-09-18 :: Howto make a ScreenShots page.
 2007-09-16 :: improve and add links to talks for DebConf*
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Various pages require some work / cleanup :
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Various pages require some work / cleanup :
 {{{
 kernel pages :
  *Kernel* ; LinuxKernel ; *BSD*
 . {{{
        kernel pages :
                *Kernel* ; LinuxKernel ; *BSD*
        coreutils
                - Merge with BashCommands, PrincipalCommands
                - ConsoleSurvival <=> Console
                - See Debian's qref
        DebianWikiTopics <=> FrontPage ?
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 coreutils
  - Merge with BashCommands, PrincipalCommands
  - ConsoleSurvival <=> Console
  - See Debian's qref
        FluxBox : merge
                DebianFluxbox and FluxBox*
        PackageManagement PackageInstallTips,DebianPackage,apt-get,AptGet
                /Reinstall
                CompleteRemove
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 DebianWikiTopics <=> FrontPage ?
 
 FluxBox : merge
  DebianFluxbox and FluxBox*
        About / HelpForBeginners
                <= merge w/ NewBoot
                <= ReadmeFirst
                <= WikiMeta
                <= ToDo
         + HelpWanted
        Merge : DebianNeo, Neo, Newbie, newbie, NewBoot
         + UsefulLinux
        Merge : "From Windows To Debian" + WindowsEquivalent + WinAppEquivalents
        UTF-8
                update status.
        For Users
                For Windows users
                For BSD & Linux users
        DistUpgradeIssues (UnofficialSargeReleaseIssues)
                what about Etch ? (Xorg ; Apache...)
        EtchTODOList
                close!
        DebianDeveloper + DebianUser
        Tips and Tricks
}}}
== Visitors comments ==
Why have you deleted the PoliciesWhackyIdeas pool? I actually am trying to implement some of those policies on a fork. Some of them may also be useful within Debian. I think they should be properly reviewed by the Policy review team, rather than just being blindly dismissed by one person who is resistant to change, new ideas and development. (I personally think that truncating all new ideas and development work from this wiki has a negative effect on the project, and the wiki would be better used for development, improvements and expansion of official documentation, as well as a place for developers and users to pool ideas for future development, including making Debian play nicely with other distros, which is something else that has been deleted from here.)
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 PackageManagement PackageInstallTips,DebianPackage,apt-get,AptGet
  /Reinstall
  CompleteRemove
 . -- MarkHobley
I've deleted the paged [http://wiki.debian.org/PoliciesWhackyIdeas?action=recall&rev=10 PoliciesWhackyIdeas] because none of the policies on those pages complied with the two criteria it had :
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   . - ''One is actually willing to do the work himself, to get your idea through. Do you have spare time ?''. - ''The Policy can actually be enforced at Debian level. (Debian isn't just going to ask the whole open source community to do something according to Debian's policy)''.
I would add a new one :
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 About / HelpForBeginners
  <= merge w/ NewBoot
  <= ReadmeFirst
  <= WikiMeta
  <= ToDo
  + HelpWanted

 Merge : DebianNeo, Neo, Newbie, newbie, NewBoot
  + UsefulLinux

 Merge : "From Windows To Debian" + WindowsEquivalent + WinAppEquivalents


 UTF-8
  update status.

 For Users
  For Windows users
  For BSD & Linux users


 DistUpgradeIssues (UnofficialSargeReleaseIssues)
  what about Etch ? (Xorg ; Apache...)

 EtchTODOList
  close!

 DebianDeveloper + DebianUser

 Tips and Tricks

}}}

== Visitors comments ==

Why have you deleted the ["PoliciesWhackyIdeas"] pool? I actually am trying to implement some of those policies on a fork. Some of them may also be useful within Debian. I think they should be properly reviewed by the Policy review team, rather than just being blindly dismissed by one person who is resistant to change, new ideas and development. (I personally think that truncating all new ideas and development work from this wiki has a negative effect on the project, and the wiki would be better used for development, improvements and expansion of official documentation, as well as a place for developers and users to pool ideas for future development, including making Debian play nicely with other distros, which is something else that has been deleted from here.)
 -- MarkHobley

I've deleted the paged [http://wiki.debian.org/PoliciesWhackyIdeas?action=recall&rev=10 PoliciesWhackyIdeas] because none of the policies on those pages complied with the two criteria it had :
  - ''One is actually willing to do the work himself, to get your idea through. Do you have spare time ?''.
  - ''The Policy can actually be enforced at Debian level. (Debian isn't just going to ask the whole open source community to do something according to Debian's policy)''.
I would add a new one :
  - ''A new policy can't conflict with an existing one''.

 -- Franklin
 . - ''A new policy can't conflict with an existing one''.
 . -- Franklin
Hi Franklin,
I wondered what had happened to the dictionary page. After a few attempts at putting content and having it go away the next day, I decided that I would wait until I had a real chance to work on it before finding out what the problem was and the best way to continue. You can follow the threads here to see what the thinking was behind the new page.
http://lists.debian.org/debian-doc/2007/10/msg00010.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-doc/2008/02/msg00003.html
take care,
MattRichardson
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CategoryHomepage  CategoryHomepage

Email

[mailto:fpiat@bigfoot.com?subject=DEBIAN_WIKI: fpiat@bigfoot.com] (put DEBIAN_WIKI in the subject.)

Irc

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

Homepage

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

Location

Near Paris, France (was Lille)

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 - 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

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

Also, Apache.org is caching their [http://wiki.apache.org/general/ wiki] pages.

.plan

My log

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

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
Migrate !DebianWiki/* Discussion to debian-www mailing list.
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 +talk?FootNote(hardware detection options and solutions) : 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.?BR add GUI to HowToIdentifyADevice/* (thanks to SalokineTerata) ?BR ?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) ?BR Merged *X_Window_System* ?BR Merged *WindowManager* ?BR 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). ?BR 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

  • actually delete ?OldFrontPage

  • continue cleaning pages... starting at letter "D"

Various pages require some work / cleanup :

  •         kernel pages :
                    *Kernel* ; LinuxKernel ; *BSD*
            coreutils
                    - Merge with BashCommands, PrincipalCommands
                    - ConsoleSurvival <=> Console
                    - See Debian's qref
            DebianWikiTopics <=> FrontPage ?
    
            FluxBox : merge
                    DebianFluxbox and FluxBox*
            PackageManagement PackageInstallTips,DebianPackage,apt-get,AptGet
                    /Reinstall
                    CompleteRemove
    
            About / HelpForBeginners
                    <= merge w/ NewBoot
                    <= ReadmeFirst
                    <= WikiMeta
                    <= ToDo
             + HelpWanted
            Merge : DebianNeo, Neo, Newbie, newbie, NewBoot
             + UsefulLinux
            Merge : "From Windows To Debian" + WindowsEquivalent + WinAppEquivalents
            UTF-8
                    update status.
            For Users
                    For Windows users
                    For BSD & Linux users
            DistUpgradeIssues (UnofficialSargeReleaseIssues)
                    what about Etch ? (Xorg ; Apache...)
            EtchTODOList
                    close!
            DebianDeveloper + DebianUser
            Tips and Tricks

Visitors comments

Why have you deleted the ?PoliciesWhackyIdeas pool? I actually am trying to implement some of those policies on a fork. Some of them may also be useful within Debian. I think they should be properly reviewed by the Policy review team, rather than just being blindly dismissed by one person who is resistant to change, new ideas and development. (I personally think that truncating all new ideas and development work from this wiki has a negative effect on the project, and the wiki would be better used for development, improvements and expansion of official documentation, as well as a place for developers and users to pool ideas for future development, including making Debian play nicely with other distros, which is something else that has been deleted from here.)

I've deleted the paged [http://wiki.debian.org/PoliciesWhackyIdeas?action=recall&rev=10 ?PoliciesWhackyIdeas] because none of the policies on those pages complied with the two criteria it had :

  • - One is actually willing to do the work himself, to get your idea through. Do you have spare time ?. - The Policy can actually be enforced at Debian level. (Debian isn't just going to ask the whole open source community to do something according to Debian's policy).

I would add a new one :

  • - A new policy can't conflict with an existing one.

  • -- Franklin

Hi Franklin, I wondered what had happened to the dictionary page. After a few attempts at putting content and having it go away the next day, I decided that I would wait until I had a real chance to work on it before finding out what the problem was and the best way to continue. You can follow the threads here to see what the thinking was behind the new page. http://lists.debian.org/debian-doc/2007/10/msg00010.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-doc/2008/02/msg00003.html take care, MattRichardson