[ckan-dev] CKAN Wiki

[David Read]

On 2 February 2011 08:13, Seb Bacon <seb.bacon at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1 February 2011 21:14, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
>> On 1 February 2011 20:32, David Read <david.read at okfn.org> wrote:
>>> Friedrich,
>>
>> This, really, really should be on ckan-discuss :), following on from
>> the previous thread:
>>
>> <http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/ckan-discuss/2010-December/000768.html>
>>
>> But now it is here atm I'll continue ...
>>
>>> Sounds like lots of new and good info is being written for the new
>>> wiki, which is great. I just want to be clear about where this fits in
>>> with our two existing CKAN wikis, because I'm concerned adding a new
>>> one makes it harder for newbies to find stuff.
>>>
>>> * http://wiki.okfn.org/ckan - for users of the service and system
>>
>> **Deprecated**
>
> In favour of what?  Can we add a message to the top of the template on
> this site saying so?

Great to hear we are simply getting rid of one wiki in favour of
another - this was not clear.

I agree with Seb here - we should be very proactive at showing this as
deprecated on *all* pages.

Again: are you migrating the old content across?

> I am yet to get to grips with all the sources of information I find --
> for example, I am still confused about the trac instance on
> KnowledgeForge (which appears to be for ticketing sysadmin tasks?)
>
> If we can reduce the number of sources I would be very happy.  If we
> can have a single index page which is the place all other things are
> linked to, I would also be very happy.
>
> I will gladly take this task on myself, however clearly there is a lot
> of history I need to understand in order to do so...:)
>
>>> * http://ckan.org/wiki - for developers
>>
>> continuing.
>>
>>> Now is the former just going to for users of services apart from
>>> ckan.net and the system in general, whilst users of ckan.net use your
>>> new wiki at http://wiki.ckan.net/? If so, will you be moving a bunch
>>> of the pages across to ensure we make this clear? Also, isn't it a bit
>>> difficult to make it clear which wiki to be using?
>>
>> No, don't think so
>>
>>> There is also a wiki page on bitbucket which is enabled - Rufus do you
>>> mind if I disable that and the issue tracking?
>>> https://bitbucket.org/okfn/ckan/wiki
>>
>> Go for it.

Done

>>> Does anyone see anything wrong with collapsing all these wikis into
>>> one central one at say ckan.org? This could have sub-sections for
>>> ckan.net users etc.
>>
>> Yes I do. Mnay of the community users will not be the least bit
>> interested in the code or the trac and conversely developers need not
>> (though may be) interested in the community wiki. See e.g.:
>>
>> <http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/ckan-discuss/2010-December/000777.html>
>
> So Olav et al were talking about a "Help" section on ckan.net; note
> that "User Guide" on the home page of ckan.net is currently pointing
> at the deprecated http://wiki.okfn.org/ckan.  So what's the correct
> location for such documentation, now?
>
> Seb
>
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