The great content migration

[Laith Juwaidah]

On Saturday 01 December 2007 02:35:02 Mike McGrath wrote:
> (sent to both docs and websites, though not cross posted)
>
> Now that F8 shipped and F9 is on the horizon, its time to look at moving
> some more of that content out of the wiki and either into
> docs.fedoraproject.org and fedoraproject.org.  This won't be a fun task.
>
> Pros:
> 1) We'll have more control and process around the content that goes to
> these sites.  This allows us to make it more 'official'.
> 2) It will be more easily translatable.
> 3) Less reliance on Moin
>
> Cons:
> 1) It raises the barrier to create these pages
> 2) It adds more process
> 3) Its difficult to determine what content belongs where.
>
>
> I've created an initial
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Websites/Removables page for stuff thats
> in the wiki that is a good candidate for the static content.  The trick
> here is that, and lets be honest, much of what is on the wiki right now
> is garbage.  This is especially true with regards to our end users.  I
> think focus on fp.o should be on consolidation.  Users have short
> attention spans, so less is more.  If we find the need to have a
> higher-detail document, it should probably be in the docs realm and use
> its processes.
>
> What do you guys think?
>
>     -Mike

I think that the documentations, i.e.: Guidelines (Packaging, Translation, 
Installation (yes, installation guide, like the one here[1])), Release Notes, 
etc... Should be edited on the wiki, and when they reach their final form, 
they are transferred from the wiki to docs.fedoraproject.org.

This may sound crazy but, why don't you move the contributors' pages to some 
static pages? Say, on their fedorapeople spaces, that way, they can customize 
them ;) and it'll be easier for whoever wants to view them, since it'll be 
just username.fedorapeople.org, for those who can't design their own pages, 
fedora-websites can be asked to create a template for them, not to mention 
that they can create a tiny webpage there, where they can have links to 
whatever they have in their space...

Cheers!

[1] http://www.my-guides.net/en/content/view/91/26/
-- 
Laith Juwaidah
http://www.ljuwaidah.org/
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