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 "The OpenMoko wiki - a tangled pile of mostly outdated and incomplete documentation."

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outdated and incomplete documentation."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?
>>> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Distributions
>>>>>>> This is a great page, one of the gems hidden in the bowels of the OM Wiki.
>> Its also a great example of whats wrong with the Wiki.
>> 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..
>> 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..
>> 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.
>> Scott
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