Wiki Cleanup Proposal

[Naaman Campbell]

> A couple of points on the plan:
>
> * I'm not sure whether or not some of your proposal involves the writing
> of new documentation. To the extent that it does, I'd recommend cutting
> that out of the proposal, and focusing on organisational matters. Once
> the organisation is complete, that will enable you to think about what
> areas of expansion are necessary.

In creating the UserDocBeta page, I became aware that there is a need
for a lot of areas that aren't covered in any forms of the Ubuntu
documentation.  The reasoning behind being so broad with the scope of
the wiki is to create a large todo list to encourage everybody who has
specialist interest in certain areas to create pages in an organised
fashion.

I do agree that it is a large task and perhaps could be left to a
little later, but there is a definite need for a cleaner UserDoc page,
albeit without sub-indexes, prior to the release of Dapper.  More
about a faster cleanup of UserDoc is at the end of this reply.

> * Wiki Move - when we move the wiki, all pages in the
> CategoryDocumentation will be moved, make sure any page you want
> transferred is in that category. There are some things linked on the
> beta page which are not documentation (for example the laptop testing
> material) - I doubt that we will want to move those pages, and if it is
> desirable to link to them (I'm not sure whether it is or not), this will
> need to be done via an interwiki link rather than a normal link.

When the Wiki Move approaches or has a set date, I will review the
UserDocBeta page and ensure that only suitable CatDoc pages remain
categorised.  I see where you are going with this point.

> > If members of the Wiki team support this initiative, it will be a
> > large project needing active participation by many people.  By no
> > means this can be fully acheived by the release time of Dapper, but we
> > can make a considerable dent into the work needed.  The
> > WikiCleanupProposal also mentions recruitment and WikiDays.
>
> I think it can be done if you restrict it to reorganisation, and not
> rewriting. I'd recommend simply keeping the same categories as the
> UserDocumentation page currently has, and simply moving the links to the
> sub-page. Keeping things simple is always an advantage.

WikiDays would be also suited for performing large CatCleanup ->
CatDoc cleanups.  Perhaps we could have the pages that are already
sub-index pages (like MultimediaApplications and WebBrowsers) remain
on the Documentation page.  All other major pieces of doco can be
classified under a temporary sub-index page called MultimediaMisc,
InternetMisc, ServerMisc, etc just to contain links.  That sounds like
a good fast-track solution to cleaning up UserDoc.

Naaman.