Usability Concept for the openSUSE Wiki ? Status Report #1

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Usability Concept for the openSUSE Wiki ? Status Report #1
04-Nov-2009 07:58

Behind the scenes, the Wiki and Booster Teams are currently working hard to improve the Usability of the openSUSE Wiki to the openSUSE Community. The process started in early October 2009 and after some lively discussions at the opensuse-wiki mailinglist, we successfully passed our first Team-Meeting discussing the Usability Concept and assigning responsibilities for specific [...]

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[suse_tpx60s]

Good to see this project going forward.

[caf4926]

Working in the openSUSE forums I'm only too aware of the need for this work and I for one applaud the work and special word of thanks goes to Rupert for his lead in this. There is lots of catching up to do as many of the wiki submissions deal with version now out of support and so mostly are no longer in use. The whole arrangement is currently rather fragmented (at least it seems that way). A front page and clear menu to all areas is a must IMO.

[oldcpu]

Just to add my voice to the choir, this is a worth while, and a mamoth task. Those who are interested, will find joining and just lurking on the openSUSE mailing list for the wiki can give a good flavour as to the large amount of work going on beneath the surface of the wiki, to ultimate attempt to come up with a better wiki system for openSUSE.

Some neat specifics, that I believe could ultimately improve the wiki format are the plans wrt sandboxing and the availability of templates and extensions.

I believe a major challenge for the wiki team will be to implement those 3 aspects (sandboxing, templates, extensions) in a user friendly manner, so that the wiki process is not more onorous than it already is.

There is so much going on in openSUSE currently (not only in the wiki, but in many other areas, such as a new release only days away, and the growing maturity of the Build Service and of openSUSE Studio) that these are exciting times to be part of the openSUSE Linux distribution (IMHO of course).