OLPC:Community Portal

This page is for the discusion of this wiki and how to better inform those interested in the OLPC project. If you have any questions about the OLPC project, please go to the OLPC FAQ; if you still have questions, go to the Ask OLPC a Question Page. The wiki is an evolving effort; there is lots of work to do: feel free to add your suggestions, feedback, and opinions below, and please sign your posts.

To Do List

Categorization

So we have fewer than 10 used categories in the entire wiki, and lots and lots of articles. What needs to be done first is some organization. Check out Special:Categories and Special:Unusedcategories to see what's already around. Here's an outline of some categories it would be good to start with. A few of us here have gone over this, and have agreed that this is a good starting point (of course, it's not complete)

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Categories

Common Room

Deployment (logistics)

Development

Application Development

Content Development

System Development

Hardware

Software

Educators (information for educators)

Feedback (Other people's ideas about/for the project)

Ideas

Critique

General Public

Languages (International)

OLPC Theory (education theory, distribution theory, etc)

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Do what you can. If you have any questions, comments feel free to message me.--Aburton 14:35, 14 June 2006 (EDT)

Hey, I was just thinking.... Currently it's kinda difficult to find the catagories... Maybe it would be easier to navigate this site if a catagories link was added to the Navigation bar on the left.--Stranger 17:09, 16 June 2006 (EDT)

General Improvements that are needed

• We could use someone who actually knows how to decently format pages so they look decent. I'm pretty clueless when it comes to that. Wikipedia has a great front page and community portal that we could emulate.
• Improve first impressions--Stranger 22:59, 13 June 2006 (EDT)
  1. make it easier to get where you're going
  2. Make the main page look more professional - while the main page has improved by leaps and bounds, Improved formating would make the main page much cleaner and more professional.--Stranger 23:06, 13 June 2006 (EDT)
• Improve the Software Page --Stranger 22:59, 13 June 2006 (EDT)
  1. Make it will be easier for new developers to jump on board.(this includes those who just got their OLPCs and want to start hacking.
  2. State the goals for the software; what software is going to be included, how things are implemented and what needs work.
• Linking is needed between pages. Too many pages are being lost because no one can find them.--Stranger 00:05, 14 June 2006 (EDT)

Layout Priorities for OLPC Wiki

Feel free to comment, change or add on to the list of wiki imperatives. Discussion in this matter is essential.

Pages That Need to be Condensed

Sometimes writers ramble on or they pull together content from several authors with a few glue words. If you see such a page on the Wiki, add a link to it here so that someone can go and rewrite the page in a more condensed and understandable fashion. Check out the Special: Long pages for more ideas.

1. OLPC_FAQ is quickly becoming Massive. I've started reorganizing, which has helped but there's still plenty of questions that over lap and could be rewriten and it's still almost so large its useless.--Stranger 22:52, 13 June 2006 (EDT)

If you collect questions by topic that makes it easier for others to notice the overlap and to edit them down to more manageable size. It especially helps if there are sub headings so you can click on edit and get a whole category at once.

Articles That Need to be Written/Expanded

List article ideas here, in particular, those articles that could be written by any intelligent person who has the time and the inclination to do an hour or two of research to collect material for the page.

1. Software - It has been started but we need to connect all the projects that are going on around the OLPC.

Pages that need to be wikified

These pages need more linking to other pages. Check out the Special:Deadendpages.

Language Management

This project is truly international and multilingual. There will be many language issues, both regarding the OLPC system software, the OLPC application software, the OLPC educational content, and the content of this Wiki itself. How can we manage all this in an orderly way. What things need to be in English and what things should be in other languages?

Random

1. I think the {{OLPC}} tag could use some formating. I think a box would disrupt the flow of the page less then the lines that are currently there but I don't know how to do boxs and other such crazy wiki stuff, so maybe someone else can do it.--Stranger 23:03, 13 June 2006 (EDT)

I like the slimmer tag--Stranger 15:42, 14 June 2006 (EDT)

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Wiki formatting

Please see the formatting conventions on [Wikipedia] for formatting conventions, particularly Wikipedia:Manual of Style (capital letters). There are a lot of pages being made with a nonstandard capitalization convention, and this needs to be remedied. Titles of pages without a proper noun or acronym should only have ONE capital letter at the beginning of the title. The pages for which this is not the case need to be changed. --Aburton 14:42, 16 June 2006 (EDT)

So you want to create an article...

several things to keep in mind.

1. make sure the page is not redundant.
2. make sure other pages link to it. In particular make sure you can find it through one of the catagories under navigation. If no one can find your page no one will go to it.

Wiki Discusion

Some Clarity is needed here. What is the Purpose of this section? It's unclear to me. --Stranger 22:40, 13 June 2006 (EDT)

What's the Purpose of this page?

I was hoping for several things for this page. First, that this would be the spot where everyone helping on this page could come together and discuss what this wiki needs to be better. Secondly I was thinking that this page could be a place to get help editing and formating pages.

Specific Page Goals

• what is the purpose of the community portal?
• what audience is a page intended for?
• what types of pages are missing and should be added?
• what pages need to be added to assist in navigating the wiki?

The pages in this section will be ones which need to be planned jointly and put together by multiple authors before being released to the Wiki. See below for article ideas that could be done by a single author working alone.

1. General Public Introduction (to help the general public find the pages that are relevant to them without hunting through the entire Table of Contents)
2. Content Developer Introduction (a navigation page targetted to people making ebooks and authoring educational content for the OLPC)

Work Plans for Specific Page Goals

General Public Introduction

This is a place holder. Ideally, we will build a page outline here and the someone will create the page, copy the outline over, and add content to the page. But only when it is ready.

Content Developer Introduction

This is a place holder. Ideally, we will build a page outline here and the someone will create the page, copy the outline over, and add content to the page. But only when it is ready.

Page Layout Standard

• How should pages look?
• Should we have page templates for people to use when creating a new page?

I think Templates would help out a bunch.--Stranger 12:42, 14 June 2006 (EDT)

Copyright Licence for this wiki.

Note that all material on this Wiki is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 license. If you do not want your material to be available under this license, then don't put it on this Wiki. If you are not the copyright holder of any contributions then please clear it with the copyright holder. Every page has a link to the license at the bottom.

• http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/
• http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/legalcode