Rehashing wikis

[Matthew East]

On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 15:26 +0000, Matthew East wrote:
> > > May I suggest the DocBook and Docbook pages?
> 
> I've had a look at the DocBook related wikis and it seems there is the
> following format:
> 
> Docbook
>   Ubuntu Docbook Interchange Protocol 
> DocBook
>   DocBookReference
>   DocbookVim
>   Docbook_test.html
> 
> I will first work on integrating the material in Docbook and DocBook,
> then I will attempt to change the parentage of the lower tree
documents
> so that they come under the single parent, and finally try and amend
all
> relevant links in other documents. Gimme a few days though as I've got
> some work on at the moment.

OK actually it didn't take any time at all to combine them so i've done
it. Docbook is now obsolete and since it didn't have many links to it,
it wasn't difficult to change them to DocBook. Docbook can probably be
deleted unless anyone objects.

There is an outstanding problem. What is the best parent for this wiki?

DocBook was at:

DocumentationArea >> GlossaryDocuments

Whereas Docbook was at:

DocumentationArea >> DocumentationTeam >> DocteamWork >> Docbook

It seems that wikis can't have multiple parents. So in the shortterm we
need to figure out the best parent for this wiki. Lemme know what you
think!

In the longterm, I was discussing with Corey in the irc chan about the
wiki system in general. I guess this can be discussed at the meeting,
but the parenting system is pretty confusing and doesn't really help
people. Someone accessing the wiki for the first time would be hard
pressed to find the right doc, unless they've already been referred to
the exact page. Perhaps a simpler structure for the FrontPage with
categories. The absence of a search tool is also perplexing.

Along with this I suppose are more wide questions about the role of the
wiki.

ok i'm done. Lemme know pls what you think is the best parent for the
DocBook wiki. Then we can eliminate the obsolete pages.

Thanks for listening, Matt