[UbuntuWomen] Wiki proposal

[Melissa Draper]

On Sun, 2010-01-03 at 19:17 -0800, Valorie Zimmerman wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 6:20 PM, Melissa Draper <melissa at meldraweb.com> wrote:
> > Maybe I didn't make it clear before, I certainly was not explicit about
> > it.
> >
> > The current /Home (the artist formerly known as FrontPage) has, in
> > comments:
> >
> >        ## Before making wide-ranging changes to the FrontPage, please
> >        discuss your changes on the UW team mailing list:
> >        http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-women. Thanks!
> >
> > The changes I am proposing are wide-ranging and substantial, and so
> > needs discussion before any permanence is considered. And no, sorry, a
> > "no comments" response isn't going to be taken as tacit agreement in
> > this case! :)
> 
> Your changes look very good to me, Melissa. I like the new menu bar,
> which I think simplifies the page a great deal.

They're used in many places on the main wiki.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoTeams is just one example (which I based
ours off), and possibly even one of the first to do it. Jono put a lot
of work in to that way back soon after he started, and it made it
waaaaaaaaaaay easier for people to tidy and build up the LoCo
knowledgebank. Hopefully it can help us achieve the same.

> Thanks for your work.
> 
> Valorie
> 
> PS: While clicking links from your work, I found:
> http://wiki.ubuntu-women.org/ToDo which is *very* out-of-date. For
> instance, the first item is, "figure out when 2008 elections are." On
> the other hand, item three is "compile a list of "core" projects in
> Ubuntu" -- and I saw that discussed in the scroll-back today in IRC.
> So we have some live items in there still. -v

So is the Events page, and the WomenAchievers page, and probably others
that I didn't scrutinize :(

There's also a heck of a lot of stuff that isn't written down anywhere,
or lies in orphaned pages that need to be put in to the matrix
somewhere, somehow. Some pages have reached critical mass like /Home and
need to be chopped up to be useful again.

The reshuffle should make it less intimidating for people to dive in and
rectify all this stuff. Hopefully. First things first ;)

> 
> > On Sat, 2010-01-02 at 18:20 +1100, Melissa Draper wrote:
> >> Greetings,
> >>
> >> I'm working on an possible overhaul of the wiki to make things more
> >> findable than the big long tl;dr list we have now.
> >>
> >> If anyone would like to help, I'm poking mainly at
> >> http://wiki.ubuntu-women.org/NewHome which would act as a starting
> >> point. The menu is http://wiki.ubuntu-women.org/UWMenuHeader and is
> >> included in pages with "<<Include(UWMenuHeader)>>". I've *not* put the
> >> header on existing pages yet to avoid confusion.
> >>
> >> http://wiki.ubuntu-women.org/Knowledgebase is new, and has the
> >> "Resources" and "Guidelines" sections from the front page, with
> >> redundant bits snipped out.
> >>
> >> http://wiki.ubuntu-women.org/Projects is new, and has the "Projects" and
> >> "Outreach" sections from the front page, with some shuffling.
> >>
> >> http://wiki.ubuntu-women.org/Contacts is new, and has the contact
> >> details for specific people within the team, such as irc, mailing list
> >> and forums operators/administrators/moderators. Please put your contact
> >> info here if it's appropriate to do so.
> >>
> >> The rest should be linked directly from the menu. If I've missed
> >> anything, then let me know or alternatively feel free to muck in and
> >> improve on what I've done.
> >
> >
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> > Melissa Draper
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