[rt-users] rt-users Digest, Vol 92, Issue 53

[Ram Moskovitz]

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> Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:44:23 +0100

From: Bart <bart at pleh.info>
> To: rt-users <rt-users at lists.bestpractical.com>
> Subject: Re: [rt-users] The RT Wiki - Restructure (start using
>       categories?)
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> Hi,
> Jay, thanks for your input. I do feel that approaching it with a blank
> sheet of paper will be the best approach.
> 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".
> *--- A rough sketch of the idea ---*
>

I like it at first glance.



> *
> *
> The idea I have relies allot on the categories within Wikia.
> 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)
> 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.
> 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)
> 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).
> *--- The structure (concept) ---*
> 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)
> 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:
>  - RT Basics
>     - User Manual
>     - Custom Fields
>     - Articles
>     - REST
>     - RT Tool
>     - RT Cron Tool
>  - RT Installation (rough categories so that people can link install
>  guides to an OS categorie, no more/no less)
>     - Linux
>     - FreeBSD
>     - Other
>     - Manual
>  - RT Config: (a categorie for each major release)
>     - RT 4
>     - RT 3.8
>     - RT 3.6
>  - Plugins:
>     - A categorie page for all plugins! This way you can link
>     scrips/configs/other goodies for a plugin to that specific categorie
> page.
>  - Scrips:
>     - Basically a summary of all scrips available for RT.
>  - Automation
> 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 ^_~
> *--- Rough plan of action ---*
> This is a rather rough plan for setting up the structure:
>  - Remove all current categories (double check that the categorie pages
>  don't contain content of any kind).
>  - Add every single page currently in the wiki to a new categorie called
>  "Archive".
>


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?

cheers,
ram



>     - This sounds ugly but it's an easy way of keeping track of all the
>     wiki pages that still need better categorization.
>     - Basically a todo list, anything still in there needs to be
>     categorized.
>     - The idea is to do a few articles each day and eventually everything
>     will be nicely categorized.
>  - Create all the categories which have been though of, make sure that
>  theres's at least some basic information on the categorie page.
>  - Modify the home page to, at first, also contain the new categorie
>  structure (keep the old links for now).
>  - Start categorizing anything that's still in under Archive.
>  - And last but not least, at a certain point modify the front page to
>  only contain the new categorie structure.
> So, those are some ideas.
> Time for everyone to shoot at them ^_~
> -- Bart
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