Kubuntu Wiki (for council consideration)

[Harald Sitter]

On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 8:24 AM, Valorie Zimmerman
<valorie.zimmerman at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 8:57 AM, Harald Sitter <apachelogger at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>> Hola,
>>
>> TLDR: request for council to discuss and vote on whether we sould move
>> most of our wiki pages (internal) to http://community.kde.org.
>>
>> As outlined in a previous mail on this topic [1], I have gotten ever
>> so annoyed with our current wiki (powered by MoinMoin) that I started
>> playing with the idea of moving to the KDE wikis as they are well
>> maintained, we don't have a lot of pages, mediawiki is generally nicer
>> and KDE's wikis do have exctingly beautiful editorial templates (as a
>> result of userbase.kde being intented as user facing documentation).
>>
>> I would ask the council to take this to a vote.
>>
>> Currently we appear to have around 12 generally useful pages on the
>> wiki [2]. All of them contain internal team documentation rather than
>> anything user facing all of these could just as well be kept on a KDE
>> wiki.
>>
>> There are however pages (namely the pre-release wiki pages a la [3])
>> that probably should not be moved. I would argue that most of these
>> probably should not be used anyway, but instead the content should be
>> copied to the actual website, or created there (pointing from the
>> website to the wiki is generally a bad thing because the wiki is
>> mostly for internal stuff and very confusing to people who try to look
>> at other stuff in the wiki).
>>
>> If there are any questions, please ask.
>>
>> [1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kubuntu-devel/2014-February/007935.html
>> [2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CategoryKubuntuUseful
>> [3] https://wiki.kubuntu.org/TrustyTahr/Alpha2/Kubuntu
>>
>> HS
>
> I vote yes, and my only question is: how soon are we doing this?

Since we are in feature freeze I guess we should be able to find some
time to do the move. That being said, the only thing holding this back
right now is council approval ;)

> I
> missed the first email about adding categories, which is a *great*
> idea. I haven't done that, but will start.

They should all be tagged already (except for the copious amounts of
random /Archive/DATE pages that are just -.-).

HS