<div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div>Jay, thanks for your input. I do feel that approaching it with a blank sheet of paper will be the best approach.</div><div><br></div><div>Though we'll have to use Wikia's abilities/structure, the below is aimed at just that with a slight eye on "structuring from scratch".</div>
<div><br></div><div><b>--- A rough sketch of the idea ---</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div>The idea I have relies allot on the categories within Wikia.</div><div><br></div><div>A categorie page can contain content, thus e.g. the contributions page could instead be a categorie page with some specific information on what you can expect, maybe some extra links to other stuff, etc. But the difference would be that since it is now a categorie page, that all scripts/contributions that have the categorie set to contributions would be automatically listed on that one page. (alphabetized)</div>
<div><br></div><div>With that in mind you can quite easily create "general" categorie pages for all major topics and have any page regarding that topic being linked to that categorie.</div><div><br></div><div>The front page would then contain a hierarchical structure with links to all the "sections" (a.k.a. categorie pages). And obviously information on what RT is, latest news/updates/etc. Another thing which you can easily add to the front page is an RSS feed of the Bestpractical blog, and maybe add a feed of the RT wiki itself showing the latest updates & newest pages. (should both be doable I think)</div>
<div><br></div><div>Other things that might be nice to add are some Wikia features for the community to promote the usage of the RT wiki (achievements and other fun stuff).</div><div><br></div><div><b>--- The structure (concept) ---</b></div>
<div><br></div><div>Since the above shows what categories and categorie pages can do for you it's important to create a structure (at first on paper) which will make sure that all major topics regarding RT are covered so that any new article can add a categorie appropriate for that specific article. (I assume that the structure will eventually grow naturally)</div>
<div><br></div><div>Since this is just a concept I've sort of just looked at the current wiki and tried to gather some basic topics, what I want to achieve with this concept is to get input from others so that we can improve it further:</div>
<div><ul><li>RT Basics</li><ul><li>User Manual</li><li>Custom Fields</li><li>Articles</li><li>REST</li><li>RT Tool</li><li>RT Cron Tool</li></ul><li>RT Installation (rough categories so that people can link install guides to an OS categorie, no more/no less)</li>
<ul><li>Linux</li><li>FreeBSD</li><li>Other</li><li>Manual</li></ul><li>RT Config: (a categorie for each major release)</li><ul><li>RT 4</li><li>RT 3.8</li><li>RT 3.6</li></ul><li>Plugins:</li><ul><li>A categorie page for all plugins! This way you can link scrips/configs/other goodies for a plugin to that specific categorie page.</li>
</ul><li>Scrips:</li><ul><li>Basically a summary of all scrips available for RT.</li></ul><li>Automation</li></ul><div>At this point I'm blank on ideas, I'll just leave it at this and see what responses there are. I'm pretty sure this list can be better/structured better, but you have to start somewhere ^_~</div>
</div><div><br></div><div><b>--- Rough plan of action ---</b></div><div><br></div><div>This is a rather rough plan for setting up the structure:</div><div><ul><li>Remove all current categories (double check that the categorie pages don't contain content of any kind).</li>
<li>Add every single page currently in the wiki to a new categorie called "Archive".</li><ul><li>This sounds ugly but it's an easy way of keeping track of all the wiki pages that still need better categorization.</li>
<li>Basically a todo list, anything still in there needs to be categorized.</li><li>The idea is to do a few articles each day and eventually everything will be nicely categorized.</li></ul><li>Create all the categories which have been though of, make sure that theres's at least some basic information on the categorie page.</li>
<li>Modify the home page to, at first, also contain the new categorie structure (keep the old links for now).</li><li>Start categorizing anything that's still in under Archive.</li><li>And last but not least, at a certain point modify the front page to only contain the new categorie structure.</li>
</ul></div><div>So, those are some ideas.</div><div><br></div><div>Time for everyone to shoot at them ^_~</div><br clear="all">-- Bart<br>