[Fwd: Re: Wiki switched over]

[Joe Shaw <joeshaw novell com>]

I am pretty sure gasman meant to send this to the list, but he replied
to just me...

I'd also like to add my thanks to Joe and Kevin for their great work on
the Wiki.  It's been by far the most valuable resource for the project.

Joe

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• From: Joe Gasiorek <joe gasiorek gmail com>
• To: Joe Shaw <joeshaw novell com>
• Subject: Re: Wiki switched over
• Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 20:51:47 -0400

I would like to take this time to publicly thank the Western Michigan
University Computer Club (http://yakko.cs.wmich.edu) for hosting the
original Beagle and Dashboard wiki.  When Kevin Godby and I first put
up the first "How to build Dashboard" page we never imagined the wiki
would get as popular as it did.  Thank you so very much everyone who
helped write, edit or link to the wiki.

Hopefully the transition to the new wiki will be a very easy one and
it will be as popular and useful as ever.

-- Joe Gasiorek
joe gasiorek gmail com


On 5/16/05, Joe Shaw <joeshaw novell com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> As I mentioned in a previous email:
> 
>         http://mail.gnome.org/archives/dashboard-hackers/2005-May/msg00011.html
> 
> we're putting a new Wiki into place.  Earlier today we switched over the
> beaglewiki.org DNS to this, and now redirect to it from
> http://gnome.org/projects/beagle.
> 
> The new wiki doesn't quite have as much content as the old one, but a
> lot of the content on the old wiki was outdated and confusing.  I think
> we have a pretty good critical mass moved over.
> 
> One of the things I tried to do was clean up the "flow" of the
> installation pages.  I tried to separate out the stuff that is common to
> all the distributions from the stuff that is distro-specific.  The old
> wiki had some plainly contradictory content in this respect, and I hope
> we can avoid that with the new setup.
> 
> There are distro-specific installation pages.  I'd appreciate it if
> people could look over the page for their distribution and fix it up as
> needed.  I've tried to touch up a lot of the pages, but I just don't
> have the expertise on most distros to fix them.  The Debian install page
> needs to be rewritten... the old one admitted that it was out of date.
> 
> A thing I noticed about the old wiki is that people would do discussions
> inside the page.  For purely informational pages it gets hard to follow.
> We're now using MediaWiki so we have discussion pages for every page,
> and we should use them.
> 
> The old wiki is still around so that we can move more content over, at
> its original URL:
> 
>         http://yakko.cs.wmich.edu/gasiorek/wiki/
> 
> Thanks,
> Joe
> 
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