Re: What's next for the Debian Wiki? (was Re: wiki.d.o on a git-backed engine)

Maytham Alsudany <[email protected]> Thu, 30 Jan 2025 18:29:10 +0800

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On Thu, 2025-01-30 at 17:47 +0800, Maytham Alsudany wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, 2025-01-19 at 23:31 +0100, Serafeim (Serafi) Zanikolas wrote:
> > second, having looked at the freebsd and archlinux wikis, I'm starting to think
> > that:
> > 
> > - high quality content is about boring process (doing small, well scoped
> >   changes, much like one would do with code; having people actively review them;
> >   and roll back changes when they don't follow certain clearly-communicated
> >   guidelines)
> 
> IMO the main issues with the current wiki, regardless of content, is:
> - Pages are unorganised and fragmented.
>   Related pages should be grouped together rather than all being on the
>   top level. There are plenty of examples of this in the wiki, one
>   example would be all the different packaging tutorials in the wiki.
> - Lack of guidelines.
>   I agree with the fact that we need better, enforceable guidelines on
>   content that can be included on the wiki, especially with redirecting
>   certain types of content elsewhere. And on that point:
> - Duplication of content.
>   The wiki repeats a lot of things that are already better documented
>   elsewhere. For instance, I don't see the point of an install guide on
>   the wiki when there's already an existing official one.

I've written a draft[1] for guidelines that could be used on the wiki.
I'd welcome any edits or discussion on the points there.

> 
-- 
Maytham

[1]: https://wiki.debian.org/MaythamAlsudany/DraftContentGuidelines

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