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Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:44:23 +0100</blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; ">
From: Bart <<a href="mailto:bart@pleh.info">bart@pleh.info</a>><br>To: rt-users <<a href="mailto:rt-users@lists.bestpractical.com">rt-users@lists.bestpractical.com</a>><br>Subject: Re: [rt-users] The RT Wiki - Restructure (start using<br>
categories?)<br>Message-ID:<br> <<a href="mailto:CAB2d3raKg39ni-3G3H-R0EwteLtgSep%2BDjaaLk87MLhhwBP5xg@mail.gmail.com">CAB2d3raKg39ni-3G3H-R0EwteLtgSep+DjaaLk87MLhhwBP5xg@mail.gmail.com</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"<br>
Hi,<br>Jay, thanks for your input. I do feel that approaching it with a blank<br>sheet of paper will be the best approach.<br>Though we'll have to use Wikia's abilities/structure, the below is aimed at<br>just that with a slight eye on "structuring from scratch".<br>
*--- A rough sketch of the idea ---*<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I like it at first glance.</div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; ">
*<br>*<br>The idea I have relies allot on the categories within Wikia.<br>A categorie page can contain content, thus e.g. the contributions page<br>could instead be a categorie page with some specific information on what<br>
you can expect, maybe some extra links to other stuff, etc. But the<br>difference would be that since it is now a categorie page, that all<br>scripts/contributions that have the categorie set to contributions would be<br>
automatically listed on that one page. (alphabetized)<br>With that in mind you can quite easily create "general" categorie pages for<br>all major topics and have any page regarding that topic being linked to<br>
that categorie.<br>The front page would then contain a hierarchical structure with links to<br>all the "sections" (a.k.a. categorie pages). And obviously information on<br>what RT is, latest news/updates/etc. Another thing which you can easily add<br>
to the front page is an RSS feed of the Bestpractical blog, and maybe add a<br>feed of the RT wiki itself showing the latest updates & newest pages.<br>(should both be doable I think)<br>Other things that might be nice to add are some Wikia features for the<br>
community to promote the usage of the RT wiki (achievements and other fun<br>stuff).<br>*--- The structure (concept) ---*<br>Since the above shows what categories and categorie pages can do for you<br>it's important to create a structure (at first on paper) which will make<br>
sure that all major topics regarding RT are covered so that any new article<br>can add a categorie appropriate for that specific article. (I assume that<br>the structure will eventually grow naturally)<br>Since this is just a concept I've sort of just looked at the current wiki<br>
and tried to gather some basic topics, what I want to achieve with this<br>concept is to get input from others so that we can improve it further:<br> - RT Basics<br> - User Manual<br> - Custom Fields<br> - Articles<br>
- REST<br> - RT Tool<br> - RT Cron Tool<br> - RT Installation (rough categories so that people can link install<br> guides to an OS categorie, no more/no less)<br> - Linux<br> - FreeBSD<br> - Other<br>
- Manual<br> - RT Config: (a categorie for each major release)<br> - RT 4<br> - RT 3.8<br> - RT 3.6<br> - Plugins:<br> - A categorie page for all plugins! This way you can link<br> scrips/configs/other goodies for a plugin to that specific categorie page.<br>
- Scrips:<br> - Basically a summary of all scrips available for RT.<br> - Automation<br>At this point I'm blank on ideas, I'll just leave it at this and see what<br>responses there are. I'm pretty sure this list can be better/structured<br>
better, but you have to start somewhere ^_~<br>*--- Rough plan of action ---*<br>This is a rather rough plan for setting up the structure:<br> - Remove all current categories (double check that the categorie pages<br> don't contain content of any kind).<br>
- Add every single page currently in the wiki to a new categorie called<br> "Archive".<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div> </div><div>Might I suggest instead creating a page called "restructure todo list" and put a list of all the current pages on that page... that way the current structure and organization, to the extent it is useful or familiar, is maintained and yet we have a todo list to work off of?</div>
<div><br></div><div>cheers,</div><div>ram</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; ">
<br> - This sounds ugly but it's an easy way of keeping track of all the<br> wiki pages that still need better categorization.<br> - Basically a todo list, anything still in there needs to be<br> categorized.<br>
- The idea is to do a few articles each day and eventually everything<br> will be nicely categorized.<br> - Create all the categories which have been though of, make sure that<br> theres's at least some basic information on the categorie page.<br>
- Modify the home page to, at first, also contain the new categorie<br> structure (keep the old links for now).<br> - Start categorizing anything that's still in under Archive.<br> - And last but not least, at a certain point modify the front page to<br>
only contain the new categorie structure.<br>So, those are some ideas.<br>Time for everyone to shoot at them ^_~<br>-- Bart</blockquote> <br>