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Email

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

Irc

franklin on irc.debian.org/#debian (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

Some ideas about what Debian Wiki is :

Some ideas about what Debian Wiki isn't:

Some best practice for wiki editors :

Hints and tips

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

and some system hints

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

Visitors comments

Hi, some regardings about your comments

  1. The wiki already have pages for those topics (Hardware, Software, Samba, Exim, etc...)
    • Sure, but not in spanish and if you can see the title is "FAQ in spanish"
  2. Debian already have lots of FAQs (both inside and outside the wiki)
    • Sure, but... the only motivation for to do the spanish FAQ is help other users (spanish people) with short answer and question.
  3. Don't create a page with just 4 lines.
    • Ok.
  4. Pages in spanish must start with "es/"
    • Ok.

Finally, a few notes regarding FAQs: FAQ are useful if they are actually frequently asked question. There is no need to write an FAQ if one can already find the answer in the manpage or using google (like "linux net send equivalent"...) or using "apitude search". FAQs 'questions' and 'answers' should be short. -- FranklinPiat 2009-06-06 07:53:36

Yes, but your opinions are very technically for newbie users, sorry.

e1th0r sáb jun 6 09:50:44 VET 2009

Why did you delete the dash page ? I don't understand why speak of bash in a lot of pages and we don't speak of dash (DashAsBinSh sell nothing about dash why use it ? and we keep a page as DebianEeePC/Dash). I'm think is really not until to make an wiki if we don't speak before an delete and if user have more information on wikipedia or with search by google. What is the advantage of wiki debian on the wikipedia or other wiki by exemple ? If the information of this page dash is sufficient why make a wiki ? If the work is create page to make a link to packages.debian.org the administrator can create a script. I can't understand why destroy the page on dash to this limite to dashasbinsh. Is not my concept of the work and I don't see a page who explain the rules of this wiki. You (this wiki) have don't need me to exist, it's really dommage. (I wait your answer).


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