Much more emphasis on Fedora users needed in wiki

[David Nalley]

On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 7:55 AM, Valent Turkovic
<valent.turkovic at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 4:23 PM, Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 16:06 +0200, Valent Turkovic wrote:
>>> On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 2:48 AM, Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 06:53:10PM +0200, Valent Turkovic wrote:
>>> >> I just posted a new howto on my blog.
>>> >>
>>> >> Bluetooth GPS Fedora howto:
>>> >> http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com/index.php/archives/bluetooth-gps-fedora-howto/
>>> >>
>>> >> Is there somewhere on Fedora wiki a place for it?
>>> >
>>> > You don't have to ask, Valent, it's a wiki.  Every user has a draft
>>> > space under their username on the wiki.  For instance, mine is:
>>> >
>>> >  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pfrields
>>> >
>>> > When I want to post something for people to edit, I use:
>>> >
>>> >  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pfrields/My_new_document
>>> >
>>> > If you want the solution to be globally searchable, you can use:
>>> >
>>> >  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Some_new_document
>>> >
>>>
>>> Thank you Paul,
>>> I made new document on wiki:
>>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Valent/Fedora_Bluetooth_GPS_How_To
>>>
>>> Maybe I wasn't clear (english is not my primary language) but I wasn't
>>> asking how to put page on the wiki (but still thank you very much for
>>> explaining) but how to better organize Fedora wiki for Fedora users.
>>>
>>> Have you looked at Gentoo wiki? Have you looked at Fedora Solved?
>>>
>>> That is what I'm talking about.
>>>
>>> Let's make Fedora wiki better for Fedora users with a HowTo section on
>>> the front page that makes use of best howtos currently in drafts. When
>>> the "wiki infrastructure" is up I guess that other Fedora contributors
>>> will join and add much more Fedora howtos and guides.
>>
>> I think that's entirely the *wrong* way to use the wiki.  Wikipedia
>> doesn't organize things in hierarchies either.  Instead, we should title
>> all pages in ways that allow the "Search" feature to work properly, like
>> this:
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=bluetooth&go=Go
>>
>> Notice how your page comes up, because you named it properly.  *That's*
>> how the wiki should work, not by arbitrary hierarchies.
>
> http://www.uploadgeek.com/uploads456/0/wiki-search.png
>
> I don't see my page come up :(
>
> I tried logging on and searching again, but I don't see it. Look at my
> screenshot. Could you also share your screenshoot to see what I'm
> missing.
>
> Thank you,
> Valent.
>
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The User: namespace isn't in the default search path. Typically you
would use the user: namespace for documents directly related to you,
or that are in draft. If you are ready for the world to see it, I'd
move it out of User: so it's within the default search path.