Moving Docs Project to Category:Docs Project

[Eric Christensen]

On Sat, 2009-11-21 at 07:57 -0500, John J. McDonough wrote:
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> From: "Eric Christensen" <eric at christensenplace.us>
> To: "For participants of the Documentation Project" 
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> Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 11:25 PM
> Subject: Re: Moving Docs Project to Category:Docs Project
> 
> >  So I don't actually sift through much of the other noise that's out
> > there.  But if people can't find something that is actually there then
> > that's a problem.
> 
> We need to take a harder look at what we want to do.  When we got rid of the 
> hierarchical naming so that "search could work", we changed "hard to find" 
> into "impossible to find".  And search is just as hopeless as it ever was.
> 
> Susan mentioned a hundred and some pages in the Docs_Project category.  That 
> is a lot, but not totally unmanageable.  Unfortunately, I suspect not all 
> relevant pages are in the category.  And, really, there are enough pages in 
> the category that it is hard to find what you need.
> 
> We already have a lot of subcategories; probably too many.  Unfortunately, 
> many pages, especially newer pages, aren't in the appropriate subcategory. 
> That failure makes the subcategories mostly useless since they become 
> repositories for documents you don't want to see, kind of like search.
> 
> If we had a SMALL number of relevant subcategories, our odds of getting a 
> page into the appropriate subcategory would increase.  As it is we are lucky 
> to remember to put something into the project category.  The odds of knowing 
> what the appropriate subcategory might be are vanishingly small.
> 
> On top of that, I'm afraid we need a more aggressive wiki gardening effort.
> 
> Just some thoughts
> 
> --McD
> 

Okay, so what categories do we need?

Docs Project
Documentation
Draft Documentation
Docs Project Management?
Docs Project SOP -> Docs Project Management
Docs Project archives -> Archives
Docs Project content tasks for experienced contributors
Docs Project content tasks for new contributors
Docs Project how to
Docs Project meeting logs REMOVE
Docs Project meetings
Docs Project policies -> Docs Project Management
Docs Project process -> ?
Docs Project roles -> ?
Docs Project tasks -> Docs Project ?
Docs Project tools -> Docs Project ?
Documentation CMS Option -> Archive
Documentation Guide -> Docs Project how to
Documentation beats
Documentation tools -> Docs Project tools
FDSCo -> ?
Improving the Docs Project workflow -> ?
Release Notes -> Draft Documentation
SELinux Docs -> Archive? (Check with Radsy)
Software Management Guide -> Archive?
User Guide -> Archive



Those are all the categories that are currently attached to Docs
Project.  If we can move stuff around here it might help clear out some
of the noise.  Maybe Ian can run Wikibot around to clean up this stuff,
too.

Some of these categories are empty, by the way.

--Eric
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