Wiki suggestions to help summarizers

Hi Chao

Congratulations on the Chao Topic Schema and the Wiki.  A  nice piece 
of work.   My understanding is that you don't want people to add 
pages to the Wiki at this time, but to feed ideas to you.  Because I 
see a wiki as particualrly good at refactoring a discussion, I have a 
few suggestions.  The volunteer summarizers may have a less 
comprehensive or  up-to-date view than staff members.  To help them, 
I suggest:

1)   Create one page summarizing the currently established goals, 
philosophy, principles, target audience, as lists of one-liners 
(bullets).  This is meant to support your summarizers in developing 
well-reasoned responses to OSAF positions  in their topics.  A 
volunteer summarizer can go to one place to refresh their 
understanding of stated project principles.  And it will make it easy 
to find   an addition or change, for example, a new target audience. 
This summary page would then link to the topics which develop these 
ideas.

2)  Add a sub-heading of "Probably relevant Maiing List  messages" in 
the as a place for one summarizer to alert another of a message or 
thread that  crosses into another Topic.

3)  Request someone to tentatively  factor threads (or messages) to 
Topics, before a summarizer has looked at them in detail.  These can 
go into the  "Probably relevant Maiing List  messages" sub-heading. 
This gets more data  into the wiki earlier and helps a new summarizer 
get started.  The mailing lists are already  huge and rapidly 
growing.  You will get more from your volunteers if they don't have 
to review the whole lists to get started.

Other wiki suggestions:

4)  Create a topic for discussion of Killer Feature Candidates, 
perhaps in the Jungle.  If it is in the jungle, link to it from your 
Key Topics page.  This is the vaguest part of the First Product 
Release statement, and it is very important. It needs to stay in 
front of the community for consideration.

5)  Add a Queries subtopic to View Issues.

Thanks,

Paul Patterson
[email protected]
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