Category talk:Categories

[Ferenc Veres]

Hi,

To Minh's new comments on categories talk.
http://wiki.openmoko.org/index.php?title=Category_talk:Categories&oldid=53674

     * Multilinguism

Until we change to any other method, I want to make sure you understand 
the current one: There is a category tree in English. The same tree is 
recreated for every language, with same category name, but /xx language 
suffix (of course these are incomplete). Every category page has a 
languages bar, this way you can navigate between your language and 
English any time.

Maintaining the copies won't be a big problem if we can reduce the tree 
a bit more.

     * Categorizing templates

Why do we need that?


     * Categorizing uncategorized categories

I have done this a few days ago, but with English categories only. 
Categorizing /xx versions would require to complete the copies of the 
category tree, what I am not going to do until: we decide to keep this 
method, we stabilize the structure. :-)


     * Rewriting the category pages text

I don't think that the new main category texts with 27 (!) links is 
useful. 27 links in 7 sentences.

http://wiki.openmoko.org/index.php?title=Category:Categories&oldid=53579

My original description of the same page had only 9 links, then the rest 
is up to the user to discover, the [+] links are listed automatically. 
It's not about: the more links we provide the more chance readers find. 
It's even the OPPOSITE in many cases.


     * Clickable tree is ugly/less functional than directory-style list 
of subcategories (but automatic ?)

Hehe, one can get used to it. Is not forced to. You don't need to use 
[+], if you go to Applications, you still get a list of subcategories.


     * Besides "Distributions" the name of top level categories are all 
questionable
           o Rename "Community" as "We the people" and move "Openmoko 
Inc." there ?


I think Openmoko Inc deserves a main category. I don't know about the 
rest of the team, but I like the word "Community". It's more welcoming, 
inviting, "we the people" does not include the visitor.


Regards,
Ferenc