[rt-users] The RT Wiki - Restructure (start using categories?)

[Jay Ashworth]

I was one of the early contributors in that post, about 5 years ago, and
while I'm about to redeploy 4.0 as a test, I haven't been using RT much in
the interim; I admit I spent more time on content than categorization,
though. 

Categories are handy.

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ruslan Zakirov" <ruz at bestpractical.com>
> To: "Bart" <bart at pleh.info>
> Cc: rt-users at lists.bestpractical.com
> Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 6:31:07 AM
> Subject: Re: [rt-users] The RT Wiki - Restructure (start using categories?)
> Hello Bart,
> 
> It would be great to see more structure on the wiki. I think "wiki
> chief editor" position is vacant, unfortunately it's not paid, but
> much appreciated.
> 
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Bart <bart at pleh.info> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've created an account on Wikia in order to do some editing on the
> > RT wiki:
> >
> > http://requesttracker.wikia.com/wiki/HomePage
> >
> > There are a few things that I want to add, but I'm kinda confused by
> > the
> > structure O_o
> >
> > I've noticed that only a handfull of articles contain a categorie,
> > these
> > categories are viewable on this page:
> >
> > http://requesttracker.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Categories
> >
> > These categories are a nice way of structuring content, people only
> > have to
> > add a page with the proper categorie and it will be displayed on the
> > categorie page.
> > In addition you have the ability to add specific
> > information/explanation to
> > each categorie page as shown on this page:
> >
> > http://requesttracker.wikia.com/wiki/Category:3.8.9
> >
> > The thing I'm missing on the main page is a link to all categories,
> > this
> > would make browsing the wiki allot easier.
> > In addition what I'm missing is a structure of the categories +
> > allot of
> > pages aren't categorized.
> >
> > I feel that the structure could be better, and with a better
> > structure it
> > would make adding articles allot easier + they will become visible
> > by simply
> > viewing a categorie specific page where everything is alphabetized
> > (no need
> > for creating a link to article X on certain pages).
> >
> > If I were to think-up a structure and start to re-organize the
> > categories
> > (edit pages to point to the new structure), would this upset someone
> > (I hope
> > not ^_^)?
> > I'd first want to roughly draw the categorie structure and verify it
> > with
> > the mailing-lists before starting to edit anything. (basically think
> > before
> > act)
> >
> > Let me know your thoughts, I feel that I have some time to work on
> > the wiki
> > so hopefully with some input from others it will be possible to
> > freshen up
> > the wiki.
> >
> >
> > -- Bart
> >
> > --------
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> > (http://bestpractical.com/services/training.html)
> > * Boston — TBA
> 
> 
> 
> --
> Best regards, Ruslan.
> --------
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