List of technical documentation: is it a useful page? What should be here? What should not?

[Michael Shiloh]

Ferenc Veres wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Michael Shiloh írta, 2008-08-25 23:36 keltezéssel:
>> While searching for the list of /sys files I stumbled onto 
>> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/List_of_technical_documentations, 
> 
>> My big concern is this: If there are multiple sources of information, 
>> there is an excellent chance that they will be out of sync, leading to 
>> confusion.
>>
>> Furthermore, this page requires that an author manually insert their 
>> document into this page, increasing the chance that an excellent 
>> technical document will in fact not be listed here. (Case in point: The 
>> list of /sys files that I was seeking is in fact not here!)
>>
>> So I propose we get rid of this page. Perhaps a more useful way to 
> 
> 
> I proposed the same thing earlier on Wiki issues (4 other "list pages")
> 
> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Wiki_Issues#Lists_now_implemented_as_categories

I agree with your proposal and would support implementing it


> 
> I also tried to solve this issue by adding a list of most important 
> articles of the category on top of the category page. This method is not 
> 100% successful yet.
> 
> http://wiki.openmoko.org/index.php?title=Category:Hardware&oldid=47443


Could this be automated to automatically list the most-clicked articles 
within a category?


> 
> (This table does not give a good overview, and does not really help 
> navigation in the whole site. But that may also be caused by having the 
> too many "subcategory" assignments. Anyway, now it looks better than I 
> remembered..)
> 
> In brief: I agree with removing manually maintained out-of-sync article 
> list pages, but we should try harder with category intros then. :-)


Agreed. I would commit to sweeping through articles and correcting 
categories. But only after we minimize the number of pages and 
rationalize the categories.


> 
> Ferenc
> 
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