organizing manuals on the wiki

[Marko Knöbl]

2009/8/4, Marko Knöbl <openmoko.marko at gmail.com>:
> 2009/7/22, Marko Knöbl <openmoko.marko at gmail.com>:
>> 2009/7/22, Marko Knöbl <openmoko.marko at gmail.com>:
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> Because of the recent efforts of creating a manual for SHR I have
>>> looked through the wiki and I have found that there are already
>>> several pages that could be seen as manuals for some distributions.
>>> However these are totally unstructured. Therefore I'd like to have
>>> some kind of standardisation about where the manuals should be put.
>>>
>>> For example Om 2008: I've found these pages which describe parts of Om
>>> 2008:
>>> "Getting Started with your Neo ReeRunner", "Om 2008 guide", "Om 2008
>>> Sudoku", "Om 2008 keyboard", "Om 2008 Installer" and "Om 2008
>>> locations". These pages are only loosely connected and hard to find.
>>>
>>> Therefore I would like to organize these manuals so information can be
>>> found more easily and they can be maintained better.
>>>
>>> My plan would be to separate device-specific information from
>>> distribution-specific information. So I'd propose to have
>>> device-manuals and distribution-manuals.
>>>
>>> Device-manuals could be written for Neo FreeRunner, Neo 1973 and
>>> probably E-TEN M 800 (SHR semms to work on this device). They would
>>> contain information about buttons and connectors, opening devices,
>>> inserting SIM/memory card, updating bootloader and GSM-firmware. The
>>> first sections of the page "Getting Started with your Neo FreeRunner"
>>> would be a good starting point for these pages.
>>>
>>> Distribution manuals would be manuals about certain distributions and
>>> basic applications of these distributions, no matter on what hardware
>>> they are installed.
>>>
>>> What do you think? Is this a good idea?
>>>
>> I've just have a deeper look into the existing pages of the wiki and
>> found the page "User's Manual" which is similar to what I had thought
>> of. Unfortunately this page never received much attention.
>> I think we could use this page as a starting point for the manuals.
>> However, as I've said before, I'd like to create one manual for each
>> distribution, and not one big manual where we put everything.
>> What I like about the concept of the existing manual is the structure
>> of the pages: There's one overwiew page called "User's Manual" and
>> several subpages labelled "User's Manual/Om 2008.8 Guide", "User's
>> Manual/Dialer", "User's Manual/Contacts",...
>> I think we could keep this concept and create "User's Manuals/Neo
>> FreeRunner", "User's Manuals/Neo 1973", "User's Manuals/SHR", ...
>> I think I'll start this transition in the next couple of days when I
>> have the time for it.
>>
> I finished the first phase of restructuring for the manuals on Neo
> 1973, Neo FreeRunner, Om 2007.2 and Om 2008. The new manuals are
> available at
> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Manuals
> The next question is: how do we link to these manuals? I'd propose to
> replace the "Getting Started" link in the navigation box which is
> linking to the obsolete page "Getting started with your Neo
> FreeRunner" - I think we should replace that link with a link to
> "Manuals" - Is that okay?
>
No replies again ... It's getting a little boring on this list! :-)
As nobody is opposing I think this can be changed as I suggested. Can
one of the sysops (Brenda?) change this? (Replacing "Getting Started"
link on the left with a link to "Manuals"?)