[WikiCaretakers] Where to start hacking?

[Johannes Zarl-Zierl]

Hi again,

Of course I totally forgot to mention this page, which shows broken links in 
the wiki:

https://wiki.fsfe.org/WantedPages

Cheers,
  Johannes


Am Donnerstag, 19. April 2018, 22:46:04 CEST schrieb Johannes Zarl-Zierl:
> Hi Erik,
> 
> Am Mittwoch, 18. April 2018, 12:13:18 CEST schrieb Erik Grun:
> > I am part of the Fellowship Group in Berlin and we want to do
> > a hack session, where we want to improve the FSFE website and the wiki
> > in general and our personal wiki (and some edu-related) pages in
> > particular.
> 
> Thank you for doing this!
> 
> > @all
> > Are there any pages, that need improvement, where we should
> > take look at?
> 
> There are quite a few pages that need improvement, but we don't have a list
> currently. Generally speaking, it is probably best to concentrate on those
> pages that you have some background knowledge at first. Chances are that you
> run out of time before you run out of work :-p
> 
> Also, if you have people with a good command of the English language: proof-
> reading is underrated but is quite an important task.
> 
> > Is there anything that we should keep in mind while working on
> > the website?
> 
> A starting point for the wiki would be here:
> https://wiki.fsfe.org/TechDocs/Wiki
> 
> or maybe also the slides from my WikiCaretakers talk at the FSFE Summit:
> https://conf.qtcon.org/en/qtcon/public/events/760.html
> 
> The TechDocs/Wiki page covers the wiki as it is now. The talk/slides give an
> overview of the things that changed compared to the "old" (pre
> WikiCaretakers) wiki.
> 
> > Are there things that we should especially avoid?
> 
> Actually, thinking of this question, I do have some specific part of the
> wiki that could be improved: Categories.
> 
> Compared to the "old way", the wiki nowadays is much more hierarchical in
> nature. This also means that while previously categories were used to group
> things together this is now achieved by putting related content within the
> same namespace.
> 
> When we started the "new" wiki, I tried to encourage this by having a page
> for each category that describes what pages should be in it. You can see
> this e.g. here:
> https://wiki.fsfe.org/Category/CountryTeam
> https://wiki.fsfe.org/Category/Portal
> 
> However, since then the situation has somewhat deteriorated, and some
> categories from the old wiki have been reintroduced blindly and/or lack a
> description.
> 
> Maybe you can improve this situation a little while working on the other
> pages…
> 
> > Is there anything else, that you'd like to mention?
> 
> If you see a problem but can't fix it right away, mark it for the next wiki
> sprint by adding it in the category [[Category/ImproveThisPage]]
> 
> Have fun!
>   Johannes


-- 
Johannes Zarl-Zierl
FSFE local group Linz, Team Austria
https://wiki.fsfe.org/LocalGroups/Linz_en/
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