[General] Updating the wiki

[Ted Leung]

In my view, the single biggest problem that we are facing is the  
actual organization of the content on the wiki(s).   That's the  
problem that Mimi and I were trying to solve with the information  
hierarchy that  was previously developed on this list: <http:// 
wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Journal/WikiReTaxonomy>.   Lots of  
people's input was incorporated into that taxonomy.    No matter  
which wiki software we use or which features it has, we are still  
going to be bumping up against this problem.   Every day we see  
questions about where to find some piece of information that was  
previously recorded in the wiki.    As far as I can tell, the only  
people who seem to be efficient at using the wiki are people who go  
to the same (small) set of pages over and over, or people (like me)  
who have a customized list of entry points <http:// 
wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Journal/TedLeung20060824> to useful  
pages.

Ted

On Sep 18, 2006, at 10:09 AM, Priscilla Chung wrote:

> We're trying to kick start the wiki project again. First I'd like  
> to ask everyone to answer the following:
>
> + What features do people like about the current wiki?
> + What features are missing from the current wiki?
>
> Here are my examples. Please copy and paste in your answers:
>
> + What features do people like about the current wiki?
>
> 1. The page loading are fairly quick–I use checkpoint a lot.
> 2. The editor is simple. Easy to use, easy to find. As long as  
> you're not doing anything to complicated.
> 3. Finding the Cosmo project page (which is the pages I'm in the  
> most) is on the left nav and fairly easy to find.
>
> + What features are missing from the current wiki?
>
> 1. Information hierarchy problem and I cannot locate pages directly  
> when I need them.
> 2. If you want to do something a bit more complicated in the  
> WYSIWYG editor, it starts to act funny. ie. adding tables.
> 3. A better search engine. Difficulty finding pages. Maybe because  
> there is an OSAF site, OSAF blog, wiki, bugzilla and addition HTML  
> pages for specs??
>
> -Priscilla
>
>
>
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