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Number ONE To item for this wiki. Everyone needs to change direction, and get hacking it.
'''''This page, and CategoryCleanup, CategoryExpansion pages is an indication about how the Wiki documentation team are failing, hopelessly. None of these pages should exist. There are currently several hundred pages listed in the CategoryCleanup page, and I am certain that many other pages should be on there as well. However the RecentChanges page shows that about 10 pages are edited in a typical day. It is therefore patently obvious that the wiki is NEVER going to be remotely up-to date at this rate. The answer is:'''''
 1. STOP writing lists about what is to be done.
 1. Start IMMEDIATELY changing every single page that you think needs correction. DON'T WORRY IF YOU ARE NOT 100% CORRECT, JUST DO YOUR BEST AND ASSUME THAT OTHERS MIGHT FIX THE BITS THAT YOU GET WRONG. Don't be intimidated by this wiki. Hack it. It won't bite. No-one is going to come round to your house and attack you.
 1. In other words: Stop writing about what needs changing, and just DO THE CHANGES.
 1. There are supposely 85 people on the Documentation team. The leader needs to get each person assigned to 1/85th of the pages, and tell them to HAVE A GO. Otherwise what is the point in them being on the 'DocumentationTeam': Dont have a team, Scrap it, and the rules about joining, and focus on getting EVERYONE to just hack pages. The whole 'Team' concept might be more of an impediment than it is worth.

'''''In a nutshell, the Documentation Team has tried it this way and its failing. "If you keep doing the same thing and its not working, why do you expect anything to get better?" You need to change your approach, try something DIFFERENT.

See other comments below.'''''
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The important pages below are in need of a thorough cleanup: ''''' So whoever wrote this list should have simply made as much effort as possible on those pages to fix them. Dont waste your time listing them here. That is not achieving anything.''''' The important pages below are in need of a thorough cleanup:
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''''' So simply delete them. Don't talk about it, DO it. If its a bad idea, someone will bring them back. I would like to delete this page, and the entire CategoryCleanup and CategoryExpansion mechanism.'''''

This page lists the various areas of the Ubuntu Wiki that need WikiTeam and general community attention.

Cleanups

The important pages below are in need of a thorough cleanup:

Also, a list of pages which need more work can be found on the page CategoryCleanup. Feel free to dive into that list, tidy up a page and remove the Cleanup tag!

Forum Integration

There are lots of good guides posted on the forums every day [http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=100 in the howto section]. Often there is material that isn't covered in this wiki. Bringing guides from there into the wiki structure can be really useful - be sure to get the author's permission to release the document into the wiki. For more details, read the ["forum"] page.

Deletion

Here you can add names of pages to be nominated for deletion.

  • VMware/Workstation/AMD64 - This is an empty page with only "moved".

  • EdubuntuDocumentation/EdubuntuCookbook - pretty old, now known as handbook, currently in svn with new plans for development

Expansion

A list of documents that are formatted correctly but simply need to be expanded to cover the full topic can be found at CategoryNeedsExpansion

Moving Documentation from Main Wiki

Many documentation pages get erroneously created on the Main Ubuntu wiki, and need to be moved into this one. This is an easy way to help out! See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CategoryDocumentation for more details!

Organisation of the Wiki

Some ideas about how best to organise the vast amount of documentation on the wiki can be found at ["WikiToDo/Organisation"]

WikiToDo (last edited 2009-04-20 23:26:38 by 79-72-55-40)