[Webcom] Restructuring the wiki

[Jacolin Yves]

Hi,

I read your pdf document :/ Forget the first point of my thought ;) Well the 
second point is not link directly to your proposal, but can take place into a 
more global enhancement of the structure.

Y.
Le Monday 16 June 2008 10:53:01 Jacolin Yves, vous avez écrit :
> Hi Milo,
>
> I followed your change on the wiki this week-end and, even if I did'nt read
> your pdf file yet, agree with you. Some thoughts:
> * Use the wiki for your proposal will be better ;)
> * Why don't use namespace [1] in wiki for Local Chapter?
>
> Regards,
>
> Y.
> [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Namespace
>
> Le Monday 16 June 2008 10:22:15 Milo van der Linden, vous avez écrit :
> > Hello webcom members.
> >
> > Lately when querying for core figures about OSGeo (number of active
> > members, events etc.) I discovered that the wiki structure can use some
> > enhancement because of double entries, double information, trouble
> > finding events etc.
> >
> > I feel that there are 3 important components in the OSGeo wiki:
> > - People
> > - Articles/Documents
> > - Events/Meetings
> >
> > And that these 3 important components can be structured with cross
> > referencing using categories. This will reduce doubling of information
> > and reduce information that is out of date and hard to maintain.
> >
> >
> > I would like to bring in a proposal for restructuring by:
> > - Creating a solid base of categories. I set up a proposal for this that
> > I would like to discuss. The pdf can be found here:
> > <http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Image:Osgeo_wiki_structure_proposal_draft.pdf
> >> Please contact me for the odg (open Office drawing)
> >
> > - Adding the DynamicPageList extension to the mediawiki installation to
> > create inline queries for listing in articles.
> > This extension can be used to auto generate lists.
> > Examples:
> > * List Members of the board of directors in (this query would be
> > selecting articles that are in both "OSGeo Member" and "Board of
> > Directors" categories)
> > * List events, future and past that are organized in mexico and which
> > are spanish spoken (this query would be: "Past Events" OR "Proposed
> > Events" AND "Espanol" AND "Mexico"
> >
> > - Make good use of the calendar extension and maybe calendar widget to
> > show a calendar of all events on the main page.
> >
> > I strongly believe that introducing language as a category and
> > restructuring the local chapters will also help to give non-US OSGeo
> > chapters better control over their own section of the wiki, ease to be
> > found by people speaking their language and setting a wiki entry point
> > for their chapter members.
> >
> > Please let me know if this proposal sounds good. I am (and am willing to
> > be) spending (more) time in restructuring the wiki so it will be used
> > even more and better.
> >
> > Kind regards,
> >
> > Milo van der Linden
> >
> >
> >
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