wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareEquivalents

[Jon Pruett]

I definately agree all these pages belong under a single title, but it's been suggested and discussed that this page should mirroring the format of the LOOP List to add consistency to the site - and in that case, removing the "documentation" category and keeping the page on the main w.u.c site. I've been emailing with the origional author of the pages and he is interested in growing it in that direction as well.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoopList

Thoughts anyone? It's probably going to be 12 or 24 hours before I would get a chance to start working it in that direction, so if you're interested in digging in that would be great - I'll join the party as soon as I can. (grin)

Thanks,

- Jon
 
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----- Original Message ----
From: Mehdi Hassanpour <mehdi.public at gmail.com>
To: Jon Pruett <montanamax at yahoo.com>; ubuntu-doc at lists.ubuntu.com
Sent: Wednesday, December 6, 2006 1:09:47 AM
Subject: Re: wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareEquivalents

Hi Jon,

Nice work! . I think as all these pages belong to one
title "SoftwareEquivalents", it's better to have each section as a wiki
sub-page... 
I added some more software to Internet page and would
like to start an Office page, let me know if you agree with creating
sub-pages...


Bests

                --Mehdi


On 01/12/06, 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.

Should the SoftwareEquivalents page and it's branches be ported even though they are on the CategoryDocumentation list?


https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareEquivalents

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)

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.


I wanted to get feedback/direction/ideas from the team before proceding. All polite feedback is appreciated, flames cheerfully ignored. :)

Thanks,

- Jon "MontanaMax" Pruett

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