User talk:Adamascj

Nice work on olpcities... how many people do you have testing it out? Cheers, Sj 13:04, 19 September 2006 (EDT)

Americo: Thanks. We have only a few guys now but we hope to have many people creating new content, doing tests etc. etc. soon. It's an open source project. Everybody can help.

Hello Adamascj. I often use the "Recent changes" page on the wiki to see what new stuff is added to it. But since several days, you are very present on that page because instead of using the "preview" option of the wiki, you directly use "Save page", and then look at your changes on the saved page to see if it's OK or not. So, I think you should use the 'preview' option much more often, it will help a lot for readability of the pages history. And nice work on OLPCities too, it looks great :)

guillaume

Americo: Sorry. I will do it.

OLPCities update?

Hi Americo, how is OLPCities coming? Who is working on it now other than you, are you getting regular feedback? Do you have any upcoming milestones? We have another sotware release in a couple of weeks, which would be a good deadline for a new public version. Sj talk 08:10, 29 December 2006 (EST)

The version of OLPCities that is beeing updated is the brazilian version, that you can see at: http://www.dmu.com/olpc Unfortunately is a portuguese version... I am having a good feedback but also only from Brazil and in portuguese. Thare are a blog only about the brazilian version, at: http://www.dmu.com

Orphaned pages

Hi! I'm trying to trim a bit the site and noticed several pages created by you that happen to fall in the orphan category (nothing in the site links to them). Many of the pages are related to the Category:OLPCities, and would like to purge them to make the site 'cleaner' and (hopefuly) simpler to maintain and keep track of.

Just for the record: I'm in no way trying to stop you from collaborating!
Far from it! I'm just trying to clean up a bit the site!
(if only I could understand portuguese better!) :)

I'm color-coding my 'suggestion' column to represent the following:

• red - pages that I would probably delete without much looking into it
• yellow - pages that might have content that you may want to salvage (deletion is forever!)
• green - pages that maybe should not be lost, but can't really tell (link or move content)

If the Page/Description is lightgreen, it means that the page is linked (but empty). Please fill the last column with what you want me to do.

BTW, I've already put all the links of the suggested 'WebQuest sobre' into the 'main' WebQuest page (or what it seemed to be) - so they're are probably the simplest to start with by tagging them to be deleted in the table.

Page / Description	Suggestion	Action to Take Delete Linked other
15 de agosto de 2006 Currently empty, but with lots of history	Review for salvageable content
15 de julho de 2006 Currently empty, but with lots of history	Review for salvageable content
30 de julho de 2006 Linked but empty, but with lots of history	Review for salvageable content
30 de agosto de 2006 Currently empty, but with lots of history	Review for salvageable content
ALPHACity Brasil Currently empty, but with lots of history	Review for salvageable content
ALPHACity Brasil - e Currently empty, but with history	Review for salvageable content
API Reference Empty - single edit	Delete page
Amiko (gerenciador do sistema) Single edit
Animated Objects Has content, 3 editions
Auto save Empty, single edit	Delete page
Basics of programming Empty, single edit	Delete page
BibVirt da Escola do Futuro Single edit
Biblioteca OLBC Brasil Content outline, single edit	Delete page
Biblioteca OLPC Brasil Currently empty, but with lots of history	Review for salvageable content
Blog Linked but empty, 5 editions	Review for salvageable content
Changing avatares Currently empty, 2 editions	Delete page
Com açucar e com afeto Currently empty, but with lots of history	Review for salvageable content
Criando atividades web com HTML Currently empty, but with lots of history	Review for salvageable content
Criando atividades web no OLPCWiki Currently empty, but with lots of history	Review for salvageable content
Desenvolvendo aplicações para o OLPC Currently empty, but with lots of history	Review for salvageable content
Desenvolvendo atividades não-web Linked but empty, but with lots of history	Review for salvageable content
Dialogs Empty, single edition	Delete page
Evince (leitor de documentos) Linked but empty, but with history	Review for salvageable content
JavaScript Libraries Currently empty, 2 editions	Delete page
JavaScript concepts Empty, single edtion	Delete page
Manual do usuário do micro OLPC Empty, single edition	Delete page
Navegador web Content & image, 5 editions	Review for salvageable content
Notícias do OLPC Brasil Linked but empty, 9 editions	Review for salvageable content
OLPCity Tutorials Currently empty, 7 editions	Review for salvageable content
OLPCity Tutorials -1 Currently empty, 2 editions	Delete page
Projeto OLPCity Brasil Currently empty, but with lots of history	Review for salvageable content
Shooting the bad guys Currently empty, 2 editions	Delete page
WebQuest 2 editions	Link it back in some page
Webquest: o novo "trabalho de casa" Has content and collaborative edits	Link it back in some page
Webquest sobre Artes Marciais Link, single edit	Link has been embeded in WebQuest
Webquest sobre Beethoven Link, 2 editions	Link has been embeded in WebQuest
Webquest sobre Radicais Livres Link, single edition	Link has been embeded in WebQuest
Webquest sobre a Luz Link, single edition	Link has been embeded in WebQuest
Webquest sobre a Tanzânia Link, single edition	Link has been embeded in WebQuest
Wequest sobre a Descoberta do Brasil Link, 2 editions	Link has been embeded in WebQuest
Wequest sobre o Egito Antigo Link, single edition	Link has been embeded in WebQuest
Wikibooks Link, single edition	Embed link in another page
Wikichicos Link, single edition	Embed link in another page
Windows com açucar Currently empty, but with lots of history	Review for salvageable content

NOTE: I'm placing external links for the pages to avoid creating an internal link that will effectively remove them from the Special:Lonelypages list.

Please review the links and edit the table to let me know what to do. If you have any questions, ideas or suggestions, please ask! Thanks! :) --Xavi 00:41, 15 January 2007 (EST)

Pages to Move / Liberating Page Names

Many pages in the Category:OLPCities have names that are too generic and lead to confuse the user navigation and/or links. For example the link keyboard is now mapped to a page dealing with OLPCities' internal handling of the keyboard, which has nothing to do with what most people would think about the OLPC laptop keyboard (which is probably what they intended in the first place).

My suggestion is to make all or most of the pages in the Category:OLPCities as sub-pages of the 'main' OLPCities page. This would lead to links like [[OLPCities/Keyboard]] which from the semantics of the link and project make much more sense than to force Keyboard design, Keyboard Artwork Library, Keyboard layouts, Keyboard definitions, Keyboard Files, OLPC Keyboard layouts, etc. on the rest of the community. Any of which would probably make a much better choice for such a simple keyboard link.

Moving a page to be a sub-page is also a good opportunity to rename it to have a name more adequate or descriptive of its content. So if you want to rename them, please note it below.

NOTE: The color coding in red (basically for the Javascript sub-pages) is because the effort of doing a tutorial on it is vastly covered in other websites on the internet—making redundant the effort. So the whole set of pages should probably not be moved but rather deleted from this wiki (liberating the names) and letting the community concentrate on more OLPC-related work.

My comments and suggestions only intention is to make a better wiki, not stopping you from collaborating. If you have any questions, please do ask! :) --Xavi 11:02, 20 January 2007 (EST)

Current page	Future parent	Future link	Comments
3D objects	OLPCities	[[OLPCities/3D objects]]
Accessing Database	OLPCities	[[OLPCities/Accessing Database]]	The content of this page only makes sense within OLPCities, there are many other contexts
Animated objects	OLPCities	[[OLPCities/Animated objects]]	Etoys, LOGO, etc. all have animation...
Avatares	OLPCities	[[OLPCities/Avatares]]
Basics of programming	OLPCities	[[OLPCities/Basics of programming]]	This is probably good example of colliding interests since the pedagogical or learning sub-community will probably want to use a very similar term—which could link to yours
Button	Javascript	[[Javascript/Button]]	Context is Javascript... they are a common GUI element - Sugar will need this name probably
Changing avatares and auto-save	OLPCities	[[OLPCities/Changing avatares and auto-save]]
CheckBox	Javascript	[[Javascript/CheckBox]]	Context is Javascript... they are a common GUI element - Sugar will need this name probably
Cookie	Javascript	[[Javascript/Cookie]]	Context is Javascript...
Core	Javascript	[[Javascript/Core]]	Context is Javascript...
Date	Javascript	[[Javascript/Date]]	Context is Javascript... it would make more sense in a Category:Languages (international) context
Document	Javascript	[[Javascript/Document]]	Context is Javascript... AbiWord will need this name probably
Dynamic write	OLPCities	[[OLPCities/Dynamic write]]	Name's a not clear
Floors	OLPCities	[[OLPCities/Floors]]	Just a gallery, should probably be consolidated in another page
Form	Javascript	[[Javascript/Form]]
Hard objects	OLPCities	[[OLPCities/Hard objects]]
Hello World!	OLPCities	[[OLPCities/Hello World!]]	Each of the programming languages referenced in this wiki would like to have this page...
Inside a house	OLPCities	[[OLPCities/Inside a house]]
Interface	OLPCities	[[OLPCities/Interface]]	This really is confusing since it should either reference Sugar or probably a redirect to OLPC Human Interface Guidelines
Introduction	OLPCities	[[OLPCities/Introduction]]
JavaScript basic concepts	Javascript	[[Javascript/Basic concepts]]	Context is Javascript...
JavaScript concepts	Javascript	[[Javascript/Concepts]]	Context is Javascript... actually is a stub (so it could be just deleted)
Keyboard	OLPCities	[[OLPCities/Keyboard]]	This really is confusing since it should reference an OLPC keyboard page
Label	Javascript	[[Javascript/Label]]	Context is Javascript... they are a common GUI element - Sugar will need this name probably
Links	OLPCities	[[OLPCities/Links]]	This really is confusing... could be used for the good of the project as a whole
ListBox	Javascript	[[Javascript/ListBox]]	Context is Javascript... they are a common GUI element - Sugar will need this name probably
Lots	OLPCities	[[OLPCities/Lots]]
Math (JavaScript)	Javascript	[[Javascript/Math]]	Context is Javascript... you had to qualify the page's name because it was taken for Math in Unicode (which also should be moved probably ;) given that it's more of a Category:Learning or Category:Pedagogical ideas
Mouse	Javascript	[[Javascript/Mouse]]	Context is Javascript... Sugar or Category:Hardware will need this name probably
Mouse over and click	Javascript	[[Javascript/Mouse over and click]]	Context is Javascript... it is a common GUI event - Sugar will need this name probably
OLPCities JavaScript Libraries	OLPCities	[[OLPCities/JavaScript Libraries]]
OLPCities Tutorials	OLPCities	[[OLPCities/Tutorials]]	with the sub-page you avoid the qualifier in the page's name ;)
RadioBox	Javascript	[[Javascript/RadioBox]]	Context is Javascript... they are a common GUI element - Sugar will need this name probably
Shooting in the bad guys	OLPCities	[[OLPCities/Tutorials/Shooting in the bad guys]]	Notice the sub-sub-page which automatically gives the clue of the Tutorial context
Sprites	OLPCities	[[OLPCities/Sprites]]
String	Javascript	[[Javascript/String]]	Context is Javascript... they are common to all programming languages
TextArea	Javascript	[[Javascript/TextArea]]	Context is Javascript... they are a common GUI element - Sugar will need this name probably
TextBox	Javascript	[[Javascript/TextBox]]	Context is Javascript... they are a common GUI element - Sugar will need this name probably
The avatar	OLPCities	[[OLPCities/Avatar]]	Notice the dropping of 'the' (better natural indexation in categories)
Using 3D objects	OLPCities	[[OLPCities/Tutorial/3D objects]]	Notice the sub-sub-page which automatically gives the clue of the Tutorial context
Using Links	OLPCities	[[OLPCities/Tutorial/Links]]	Notice the sub-sub-page which automatically gives the clue of the Tutorial context
Using Transit	OLPCities	[[OLPCities/Tutorials/Transit]]	Notice the sub-sub-page which automatically gives the clue of the Tutorial context
Using the Time-Space Portal	OLPCities	[[OLPCities/Tutorial/Time-Space Portal]]	Notice the sub-sub-page which automatically gives the clue of the Tutorial context
Window	Javascript	[[Javascript/Window]]	Context is Javascript... they are a common GUI element - Sugar will need this name probably

NOTE: I'm using external links, so that this comment is not in conflict with the #Orphaned pages notes.

If you have any question, please ask! Thanks --Xavi 11:02, 20 January 2007 (EST)

moved a bunch of olpcities pages around

Hi Americo,

I just moved all of the OLPCities pages to addresses like "OLPCities/<blah>", and mentioned it in Talk:OLPCities. If you have any thoughts about this, or other commentary, please respond at that talk page, and leave a note at my own talk page: user_talk:jacobolus. Thanks! --Jacobolus 19:42, 13 February 2007 (EST)