[wellylug] Samba PDC/OpenLDAP on SuSE - Off topic

Matt Brown matt at mattb.net.nz
Tue Sep 13 12:48:58 NZST 2005


On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 11:55 +1200, David Harrison wrote:

> Wikipedia makes sense because it is just like an encyclopedia and like
> an encyclopedia everything is nicely divided into compartmentalized
> sections about a specific thing.
> The confusing part about the NZ Linux Wiki is that its subject matter
> is not so discrete and most of the content could exist in lots of
> different sections (and there's stuff about Osama Bin Laden?). Doing a
> search for Samba came up with about a dozen different articles that
> all dealt with slightly different derivations of the same concept. I
> wasn't too sure whether to make my own page up or just tack my link
> onto the twelve different pages. In the end I've added a link on the
> bottom of a few of the pages.

Point take. This is one of the differences, we don't try to be
Wikipedia, and a certain amount of disorganisation can follow from
this :)

We try to have WikiGnome's how go through and sort out subject areas
every now and again, but there is so much content that the gnomes are at
a bit of a disadvantage. 

The more people we can get to wiki the better, if you have some time to
commit don't hesitate to refactor and rearrange things into a more sane
format. If you are adding new content or removing stale content this is
especially appreciated.

> Also there didn't seem to be an easy way of getting back to the start
> page or to the Categories pages without pressing the back button or
> editing the URL in the titlebar. 

Hmm, that is a bug. The WLUG theme has several links back to the start
page, these seem to have been dropped in the NZ Linux Wiki theme. I'll
see if we can get them back.

> I guess in the end a little more visual hierarchy would have helped
> quite a bit in understanding where I was in the site.
> For example a breadcrumbs trail: Home -> Networking -> Windows
> Networking -> SambaPDC

Not a bad idea. 

> Don't get me wrong its a good idea but it just felt like it needed a
> lightweight category system sitting on top of the basic Wiki to help
> divide things out a bit clearer.

The comments are much appreciated. The Wiki will never be as organised
or as formal as Wikipedia, it's targeting a different type of
information, but we're still interested in doing whatever we can to
improve it's usabilty. 

Thanks

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Matt Brown
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