wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareEquivalents

[Corey Burger]

On 12/1/06, Jon Pruett <montanamax at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'm new to the group and starting to port over the pages in the old https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CategoryDocumentation to the new community wiki. The technical process makes sense to me (I did a couple simple pages last night), but I have a question that is more content related.
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> Should the SoftwareEquivalents page and it's branches be ported even though they are on the CategoryDocumentation list?
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> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareEquivalents
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> That page has the following branches populated to a varying degree with information -
>
> SoftwareEquivalentsBusiness (1 item)
> SoftwareEquivalentsCAD (3 items)
> SoftwareEquivalentsElectronic (really a list of specialized Linux CAD applications without Windows equivalents)
> SoftwareEquivalentsInternet (7 lines, most items mentioned in other parts of the community wiki)
> SoftwareEquivalentsMisc (1 item with an existing dedicated community wiki page)
> SoftwareEquivalentsMultimedia (3 items with a very well built, dedicated community wiki page)
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> My concern is for duplication of information and confusing of end users. I'm leaning towards "yes, we should port the pages not in their current format". I think the main Software Equivalents page could remain as it does have value for new to Linux users understanding what new applications they can use to solve current needs. But I think the page should be made more of a jumping point to existing wiki pages such as https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MultimediaApplications and create new pages for things like the CAD software.  I think this could be more productive than listing of one for one "old application vs new application and fit better into the community wiki style and format.
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> I wanted to get feedback/direction/ideas from the team before proceding. All polite feedback is appreciated, flames cheerfully ignored. :)
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> Thanks,
>
> - Jon "MontanaMax" Pruett

Cool, thanks for doing this work. While you are porting, there are two
things I would love to see happen:

1. Merge with the LOOPList
2. Make the pages SoftwareEquivalents/Multimedia /Games, etc

Thanks again for your work.

Cheers,

Corey