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

[Bart]

Turns out that it isn't needed to create a category.

There's a special page called "Uncategorized items" for that purpose.

-- Bart


Op 1 december 2011 08:18 schreef Ram Moskovitz <ram0502 at gmail.com> het
volgende:

> 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?)
>> Message-ID:
>>       <CAB2d3raKg39ni-3G3H-R0EwteLtgSep+DjaaLk87MLhhwBP5xg at mail.gmail.com
>> >
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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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