In the press. "The OpenMoko wiki - a tangled pile of mostly outdated and incomplete documentation."

steve steve at openmoko.com
Thu Jul 17 21:00:16 CEST 2008


Brenda

  The main page index does not address Scotts issue.

  I second scott's criticism of the wiki. It is not organized well.

  A good start would be a better search engine

   

Steve

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[mailto:community-bounces at lists.openmoko.org] On Behalf Of Brenda Wang
Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 6:56 AM
To: scott at tnstaafl.net; List for Openmoko community discussion
Subject: Re: In the press. "The OpenMoko wiki - a tangled pile of mostly
outdated and incomplete documentation."

Hi, I am wiki full time editor of Openmoko.
Thank you for your opinion . I will put more effort , to make wiki more easy
to use.
And now , If you want to know what we have on wiki , Please use this Index
page.
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Main_Page

Brenda

Scott Derrick ??:
> Perhaps this is what you seek?
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>> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Distributions
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> This is a great page, one of the gems hidden in the bowels of the OM Wiki.
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> Its also a great example of whats wrong with the Wiki.
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> But how do I find it?  Its not listed on the home page,  not on the 
> FreeRunner page,  not on the getting started page?    Unless I search 
> for exactly teh right word or combinations of words I would never know 
> it existed... The only link I could find, after I knew it existed was 
> Software/distributions/distributions..
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> There has to be some kind of boiler plate format for the design and 
> layout of the Wiki so things are easier to find. You can't rely on the 
> search engine, it sucks..
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> I think that was the point of the person who recommended the OpenWRT 
> Wiki.  Its design and format was easy to use and helped you find 
> things instead of thwarting you.
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> Scott
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