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This page is about avoiding a "how this wiki works" page. Right now, the wiki looks a bit like an untamed garden. It is to our advantage to present users, contributors, and founders with a clear and consistent structure. We can define the purpose and scope of the wiki so that contributors have a better chance at contributing in the right places.
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This page is about avoiding a "how this wiki works, and where the heck is it" page. Right now, the wiki looks a bit like an untamed garden. It's worth looking at other opensource web sites and seeing how they use their wikis. Ease-of-use has a lot to do with "getting what you expect."
   
Formatting and content guidelines belong elsewhere.
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Format and content guidelines belong elsewhere.
   
 
Potential topics:
 
Potential topics:
   
* How information can be organized (categories, groups, etc.) to keep it as unambiguous as possible. That is, making it easy to decide which "child" page belongs to which "parent." This should take the roadmap into account -- I don't think we've planned page stubs for contributors so that they don't have to invent their own.
 
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* What information is available in the wiki, and have we noted places where contributions would be welcome? Is any one person(?) responsible for keeping an eye on it?
   
* Who has should have access to different levels of information.
 
 
* How is it organized -- is it easy to see the relationships between topics (which "child" page belongs to which "parent"? This should take the roadmap into account -- I don't think we've planned page stubs for contributors, and that could make wiki evolution more coherent.
   
* How to improve the navigatability of the wiki. Right now, there is no site-wide Table of Contents, and there aren't a lot of hyperlinks between pages.
 
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* What level of information is available to who -- and when should we provide pointers to more specialized information? What, if anything, is confidential? How can an unprivileged person ask about that info?
   
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* How do you find your way around? This is more of a design issue -- it probably belongs to the wiki-owners, not in the wiki itself.
   
This also relates to the re-design of the Kerberos Consortium web site, w/r/t ease of navigation and access to levels of information.
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This also relates to the re-design of the Kerberos Consortium web site, w/r/t ease of navigation and access to levels of information. It might be a good idea to link the wiki with the site page.
--[[User:Estone|Estone]] 20:50, 10 April 2008 (EDT)
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--[[User:Estone|Estone]] 21:27, 10 April 2008 (EDT)

Revision as of 21:27, 10 April 2008

Planning the Wiki Evolution

This page is about avoiding a "how this wiki works, and where the heck is it" page. Right now, the wiki looks a bit like an untamed garden. It's worth looking at other opensource web sites and seeing how they use their wikis. Ease-of-use has a lot to do with "getting what you expect."

Format and content guidelines belong elsewhere.

Potential topics:

  • What information is available in the wiki, and have we noted places where contributions would be welcome? Is any one person(?) responsible for keeping an eye on it?
  • How is it organized -- is it easy to see the relationships between topics (which "child" page belongs to which "parent"? This should take the roadmap into account -- I don't think we've planned page stubs for contributors, and that could make wiki evolution more coherent.
  • What level of information is available to who -- and when should we provide pointers to more specialized information? What, if anything, is confidential? How can an unprivileged person ask about that info?
  • How do you find your way around? This is more of a design issue -- it probably belongs to the wiki-owners, not in the wiki itself.

This also relates to the re-design of the Kerberos Consortium web site, w/r/t ease of navigation and access to levels of information. It might be a good idea to link the wiki with the site page.

--Estone 21:27, 10 April 2008 (EDT)