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 see the OLPC_FAQ and if you still have questions see the Ask OLPC a Question Page. This Wiki is an evolving effort and becuase there's this is such a new Wiki there's lots of work to do, feel free to add your opinion and sign it.
To Do List
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)
- make it easier to get where you're going
- 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)
- 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.
- 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 Long pages for more ideas.
- 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)
Articles That Need to be Written
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.
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
- 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)
So you want to create an article...
several things to keep in mind.
- make sure the page is not redundant.
- 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.
- General Public Introduction (to help the general public find the pages that are relevant to them without hunting through the entire Table of Contents)
- 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?
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.