Wiki Article Reviewing - We urgently need volunteers

[rhorstkoetter]

Community,

we're working hard to improve the openSUSE wiki but we still need YOUR help in order to achieve this mammoth task and to come up with something awesome. That said, all preparation is done so far, we did a mentoring session on 27.12.09 and Minutes [1] are available for your reference. We have a document that precisely outlines the job we need your help for [2] and I'd like to ask again for helping hands. Every community member is easily able to help us with the Article Reviewing for the sake of the whole openSUSE community. So, if you have some spare minutes on the table, please step up and jump in. The linked document [2] should describe the process in pretty much detail but nevertheless, if there are open questions, don't hesitate to contact the Wiki Team on IRC Freenode #opensuse-wiki Channel or at the opensuse-wiki mailinglist. That said, open-slx is putting a significant amount of workforce into this effort, but we still need YOUR help in order to be successful.

[1] [opensuse-wiki] Minutes Mentoring session, December 27th
[2] Transition guidelines - openSUSE

Thanks in advance,
R

[Jonathan_R]

Some of you have already joined, and that's great, but we need so much more.
We have currently, these articles Categoryutdated - openSUSE that are outdated, and many more that need to be reviewed.

Many of you think of openSUSE as your distro, well now here is an opportunity for you to take it to the next level and get involved. Think back to all the help you received, whether here on the forum or via the wiki, or some other means. One of the beauties of open source is being able to share. This is your chance to share, to give back.

You might think, well, I'm just a newbie. I say, so what. You can still help. It doesn't matter where you are in your Linux/openSUSE journey. You can still jump in and help. We just need your willingness, time and effort. If you need help, we'll be there to help.

You can find use on the mailing list opensuse-wiki@opensuse.org and in IRC on irc.freenode.net #opensuse-wiki

There are 6 Articles "checked", 21 Articles "under review" and 5 Articles "not transferred". While this is certainly appreciated, I assume that we won't manage to go through Transition list - openSUSE in a reasonable timeframe.

So you see, we really do need your help. I hope we'll see you there.

[twelveeighty]

I'd like to help, but I don't know what the Transition Guidelines mean by:

Select an article on the basis of the first arrived, first served

How can I tell when an article "first arrived"?

[rajko_m]

twelveeighty wrote:

> How can I tell when an article "first arrived"?
>

First come, first served is about who picks up the article; there is no
predefined assignment, but who takes article first that one is article's
editor/reviewer.

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Regards Rajko,

openSUSE Wiki Team: http://en.opensuse.org/Wiki_Team
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[Jonathan_R]

If it looks like this, openSUSE:Article Template - openSUSE as opposed to Build Service Team - openSUSE

But feel free to jump in. If you have any questions, just ask. We wont bite.....much.

[michael_cheah]

I'm going to help as much as I can.

Still trying to understand the wiki format.

[twelveeighty]

If it looks like this, openSUSE:Article Template - openSUSE as opposed to Build Service Team - openSUSE

But feel free to jump in. If you have any questions, just ask. We wont bite.....much.

I took the Updating KDE and other software via YaST - openSUSE page as an example.

I marked it as "obsolete as of 11.0". Is that right? Or do we consider an article relevant if it still applies to 10.3?

[Jonathan_R]

I took the Updating KDE and other software via YaST - openSUSE page as an example.

I marked it as "obsolete as of 11.0". Is that right? Or do we consider an article relevant if it still applies to 10.3?

Looks fine. You can also use IRC for real time chat. irc.freenode.net #opensuse-wiki

[caf4926]

It's not clear to me at this page: Transition list - openSUSE
What is what!?

It seems to be a list of everything.
For Eg: I can find an article I just recently did. Which IMO does not need working on.

[rajko_m]

caf4926 wrote:

>
> It's not clear to me at this page: 'Transition list - openSUSE'
> (http://en.opensuse.org/Transition_List)
> What is what!?
>
> It seems to be a list of everything.
> For Eg: I can find an article I just recently did. Which IMO does not
> need working on.

It is reworked list taken from first 500 on:
http://en.opensuse.org/SpecialopularPages
but I work on a shorter list, as with current
http://en.opensuse.org/Transition_List we will end transfer by next year.

The problem is that PopularPages collect statistics since wiki was
established, so some pages that are closer to deletion then transfer are at
the top:
http://en.opensuse.org/Compiz
http://en.opensuse.org/SUPER
http://en.opensuse.org/Beryl ‎(491,850 views)
http://en.opensuse.org/1 CD Install ‎(203,645 views)
http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE News/10.2-Release ‎(170,305 views)

I made today list of first 65 items, but now I'm out of time to create wiki
article, like:
http://en.opensuse.org/Portal/All/Numbers
that will make work on transition a bit more comfortable.

If you have ideas how to enhance table let me know, but be aware that each
new column will add one row to each entry in a wikitext and make it harder
to edit.

Maybe creating a lot of smaller tables, that will be indexed, or linked
from, one common table, that will need a change only when all articles in a
smaller table are fixed, can solve editing problem of a single large table.


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Regards Rajko,

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