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Email

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

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Irc

franklin on [irc://irc.debian.org/#debian irc.debian.org/#debian] (I'm not often connected)

Homepage

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

Location

Near Paris, France (was near Lille)

My Packages

[http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=fpiat@bigfoot.com qa.debian.org]

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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 :

  • 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..)

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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-nox, then enable various options in /etc/vim/vimrc (especially set incsearch, syntax on, and set ignorecase. see my attachment:.vimrc).

  • Install mc, screen, tree, xnest, fast-user-switch-applet

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

  • Install some mozilla's : [http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/ web-developer]

and some system hints

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My log on the Wiki

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

2009-01-17

Cleanup (CategoryProposedDeletion).

2009-01-17

Proposing a structure for CategoryProprietarySoftware (on [http://lists.debian.org/debian-www/2009/01/msg00135.html debian-www]).

2009-01-15

[http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2009/01/msg00335.html testing-proposed-updates] patch to fix 510012 .

2009-01-12

research to embed images.. which lad to [wiki:DebianWiki/EditorGuide DebianWiki/EditorGuide#screenshots]

2009-01-12

[http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2009/01/msg00288.html 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"]
2009-01-04
New wiki maintenance/monitoring scripts.
2009-01-04
Cleanup old discussions pages
2009-01-04

Start preparing [:MigrationStatus: 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 ["Debian Wiki/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 ["FrontPage"]s (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#debian-instsaller-gui:ScreenShots]

2008-06-03

create/reorganiseg [:M68k: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 +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.

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New wikipages ideas

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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.

My Todo for Debian

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