Making the help.ubuntu.com wiki into a one-stop support resource!

[Karl Anliot]

Look at the german wiki:  http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Startseite page.
It's beautiful.
It even has a little pictures next to each of the major categories.

Phill, the more you and Chris dig in your heels and oppose change to
the wiki, the more I'm convinced there has to be some organization
imposed onto the wiki.

thanks,
kanliot

On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 10:29 PM, Phill Whiteside <PhillW at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Hi Karl,
>
> I used to have everything accessible from one page. It was pointed out to me
> that it would become a nightmare, and it did. Imagine trying to have both of
> our FAQ pages in one place, along with every other page that they point to.
> In fact, the FAQ pages now need splitting as they are far too large. Once
> the dust settles and the wiki/docs team have finalised the diverting of all
> the old pages, next up will be an index. Auto Generating an index page is
> easy.... getting one that doesn't scare people is much more difficult. Rest
> assured, it is on the 'TODO' list. If you'd like to help in this task,
> please join the wiki/docs team.
>
> @Chris, I hope you don't mind my replying to this one - I was mainly
> responsible for "frankenstiens monster" that your team has doggedly cleaned
> up.
>
> Regards,
>
> Phill.
>
> On 19 April 2012 06:13, Karl Anliot <kanliot at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I'm looking at our wiki homepage
>> :https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu and I think it's too small.
>>  If it was big enough, we wouldn't need the LOST thread on the wiki.
>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1844755
>> Most of the information on the LOST thread is simple stuff.  Newbie
>> stuff.  But Moving this information to the wiki, would make it easier
>> to keep it up to date, make it easier for users to find things.  (they
>> wouldn't have to search the wiki, give up, and then search the LOST
>> thread)
>>
>> I hope that the people who wrote the existing Lubuntu wiki will
>> understand my intention.  But the wiki homepage must be expanded and
>> organized.
>>
>> Look at other moin moin wikis: http://wiki.python.org/moin/FrontPage
>> and http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Startseite  Both pages allow users to
>> navigate to the pages they need to support themselves.
>>
>> So once the Lubuntu wiki homepage is expanded, we won't need the LOST
>> thread.
>> This is a major change, especially for the support people who use
>> LOST, so everyone needs to 'be on board'
>> Thanks,
>> kanliot
>>
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