[OSM-talk] Reformulate the wiki home page

[Andy Robinson]

Tiago,

Duplication seems to occur when individuals feel what is there presently is
not what they wanted to see, or they did not find what they were looking for
first time around. Redundancy appears principally to be a reflection that
older content gets superseded and doesn’t get cleaned out.

There is nobody with overall responsibility for keeping a tab on the
structure, it’s a total free-for-all, so my suggestion to you is that you
make a proposal to the list (being specific about the pages you have a
problem with), give it a week or so to see what if any comment comes back
and then go ahead and merge/deprecate or otherwise clean up the problem bit.

Usually the big limiter for may of us is time. Those that get involved in
other aspects of the project often find it difficult to devote the time to
cleaning up the bare bones of good ideas and basic content that get laid
down. It needs a few people who are used to editing documents and creating
web pages generally to clean up and solidify what the rest of us churn out
at 2:00am in the morning ;-)

Cheers,

Andy

Andy Robinson
Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk 

>-----Original Message-----
>From: talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-
>bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Tiago Bruno Espírito Santo Silva
>Sent: 27 October 2006 12:16 AM
>To: talk at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: [OSM-talk] Reformulate the wiki home page
>
>hello!
>
>I think the wiki home page have redundant information. There are some
>duplicated links with different information...but it should be the same
>or just one link, i think!
>"Getting involved, creating maps" :
>http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Portal:Users
>"Getting involved" :
>http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Getting_Involved
>
>Now that  the home page of the OSM is the wiki, i think  it should be
>more appellative and simpler to the new comers.
>OSM is a universal project and it's growing fast...
>
>What's your opinion?
>
>Tiago
>
>
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