[Users] Please help! Orphaned pages

Mike Burns mburns at redhat.com
Tue Jul 10 11:33:02 UTC 2012


On Tue, 2012-07-10 at 12:09 +0200, Dave Neary wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I just had a look at 
> http://www.ovirt.org/w/index.php?title=Special:LonelyPages&limit=250&offset=0 
> - the list of "orphaned" pages in the wiki (that is, pages which are not 
> linked to from any other page).

Does this not take into account category pages?  There are a number of
Node related pages listed there, but they're all linked from the main
Node category page.  

Mike

> 
> There are 136 pages in there!
> 
> Some of them quite clearly belong together and could be grouped quite 
> easily in one page - for example, all of the "Features/" pages can be 
> linked from the release management page related to the release the 
> feature is implemented in (or added to a "Future features" page). Others 
> it will be a little trickier to tidy, but tidy them we should.
> 
> This is a pretty straightforward task if you have access to the wiki - 
> we just need to add appropriate sections to appropriate pages (or create 
> new pages as needed) to collect and organise things that go together in 
> the same place, and once we have them organised, we can then add some 
> structure and hierarchy to the wiki pages.
> 
> I would really like to have some help! Does anyone have a few minutes to 
> help ensure all the orphan pages are linked to from a good place?
> 
> If so, I'd like to suggest a wiki sprint, which we can co-ordinate in 
> IRC. How does Thursday at 12:00 UTC sound? I bet in 2 or 3 hours we 
> could take a big chunk out of that page count! Of course, there's no 
> need to wait until then - please, if you don't have one yet, consider 
> getting a wiki account, and digging in right now.
> 
> Your help will be greatly appreciated - as they say in France, "les 
> petits ruisseaux font des grandes rivières" (little streams make great 
> rivers).
> 
> Thanks!
> Dave.





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