Re: Re: [opensuse-packaging] Proposal for a multimedia team.

On 11/25/2010 05:03 PM, Stephan Barth wrote:
> However I would propose a portal in the wiki for music production. I think
> this the best way to present that topic to users and to show what is
> important, what can be improved or other important information like links to
> http://www.linuxaudio.org/ etc.
>
> What do you think?
>
>   
I realized that I hadn't emailed the openSUSE project list about the
proposal for a multimedia team so I did and so far have some good info
about wiki portal creation :
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Re: [opensuse-project] multimedia team proposal
Date: 	Fri, 26 Nov 2010 08:23:26 -0600
From: 	Rajko M. <[email protected]>
Organization: 	Me
To: 	[email protected]



On Friday 26 November 2010 06:54:57 Dave Plater wrote:

> Anyway we have the intention for a multimedia wiki page and a few
> interested users, one a developer of some of the apps we have in the two
> main multimedia devel projects and one that's focused on music
> production who is interested in creating a wiki focused on music
> production using openSUSE.
> I'm an active maintainer of multimedia apps and libs.
> Any suggestions, guidance or participation will be welcomed.
> Dave P

First the obvious:

Portal:Multimedia 
http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Multimedia 
There is template available in drop down

http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Multimedia/Intro
Into section:
In short what is multimedia (MM).
Please be concise and put the most relevant info right in the beginning of the 
first sentence of the first paragraph. Web readers parse web pages for 
keywords and words that are right at the top left has the biggest chance to be 
read. Also, we would like to reuse that text in other pages in the way that 
templates work. Google will extract only one or two sentences out of the top 
of the article; try query "opensuse portal" and see what I mean. 

http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Multimedia/Topics
Topics:
How do you plan to sort topics?
Audio, Video, Graphics, or some other sort order?

http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Multimedia/News
News section:
The best is to have RSS/Atom feed included there. 
Also, we did not use that section for announcements, but top can be used to 
announce meetings and other actions.

The team introduction:
Link to "openSUSE:Multimedia team" page somewhere in the topic section. 


http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Multimedia/
TODO section:
All that should be done related to MM project.
If list is excessive create another page with title:
"openSUSE:Multimedia TODO"
and put link in TODO on portal page.

Alternative is to list few easy tasks (those that need an hour or lesser) on 
TODO page, so that readers that want to participate have something to do, and 
add link to "openSUSE:Multimedia TODO" in the footer of section as "More..." .


The right column is a narrow one and it is for navigation.
http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Multimedia/Navigation
There you can put just link to wiki category page about multimedia:
http://en.opensuse.org/Category:Multimedia
Syntax is:
'''Multimedia articles:'''
<categorytree>Multimedia</categorytree>

'''All portals:'''
<categorytree>Portals</categorytree>

First line will be bold "Multimedia articles:" acting as a subtitle.
Second line will become listing of Category:Multimedia .
Don't forget to put your articles in that category by including:
[[Category:Multimedia]]
at the end of each article that belongs there. MediaWiki software will do the 
rest.

The same is valid for "All portals:" part that is used to interconnect all 
portals.

If you need more help with the wiki:
http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Wiki
or use contact information listed in:
http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Wiki_team section Communicate.

-- 
Regards,
Rajko