[DOCS] Swiki color codes (was RE: Wiki refactoring)

Chris Burkert christian.burkert at s2000.tu-chemnitz.de
Wed Mar 5 15:55:58 UTC 2003


Hannes Hirzel wrote:
> Doug Way <dway at riskmetrics.com> wrote:
> 
>>>Yes, i know about the color codes, but you can't search colors 
>>>categories and the number of categories are fixed right now.
>>
>>I have to admit that I never notice the color codes and don't find them 
>>particularly useful.  I've probably created a bunch of pages with the 
>>wrong color code. :-)
>>
>>- Doug Way
> 
> 
> No problem, the documentation team will take care of this ....
> 
> The color codes were introduced later so many of the pages
> do not have the correct code yet.
> 
> However it is one of the tools for structuring the content
> we have at hand at the moment.
> 
> 
> Chris Burkert from the documentation team has been going
> systematically starting at page one. He is now at page 600.

I'm at 500 :-)

I mainly looked for *RecycleMe*.

> His estimate is the following
> 
> 
>  50% of the pages are personal pages and pages link collections to them
>  30% garbage or redundant information
>  20% valuable documentation   
> 
> The swiki has 3000 pages, so we roughly have 600 pages of valuable
> documentation.
> 
> 
> The color code we have at the moment are
> 
> - Miscellaneous 
> - Personal Page 
> - Documentation    <<-- green
> - Project / Enhancement 
> - Discussion / Vision 
> - Off-topic
> 
> So the most valuable thing I'd like to suggest is marking the pages with
> *real* documentation with the green title bar. This will allow us later
> to do an automatic extract of the texts written there and transfer it
> into other formats.
> 
> -- Hannes

Regards
            Chris Burkert
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