[squeak-dev] Improvements to wiki.squeak.org

Nicolas Cellier nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com
Fri Apr 6 09:04:51 UTC 2018


By re-routing one or two rivers, it sounds effectively possible, but we
need may little washing particles
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labours_of_Hercules#Fifth_labour:_Augean_stables

2018-04-05 19:47 GMT+02:00 tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org>:

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> > On 05-04-2018, at 10:13 AM, K K Subbu <kksubbu.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > wiki.squeak.org/squeak is an excellent resource for Squeakers. However,
> it's interface is a bit dated and could do with some improvements.
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> I agree that the UI is a bit blah (and your suggestions are interesting)
> but far more worrying is the out of date state of so many pages.  Every now
> and then I go on a minor rampage to mark obviously obsolete pages, delete
> clearly ridiculous one, recycle those pages, update stuff where I know what
> can be improved and so on. We suffer from a colossal swathe of effectively
> empty pages generated by some long-gone process/project that appeared to
> consider that dumping class name as page and (maybe) sticking class
> comments in was a good idea. There are strings of pages forming the
> promising beginnings of tutorials that simply fade out to.........{crickets}
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> Almost anyone can help to clean up the swiki. Pick some page from the
> front page, follow it down the rabbit-hole a bit, look at the pages that
> link to a duff page, clean them up a bit, recycle bad pages, rewrite poorly
> thought out explanations, maybe replace ancient screenshots with ones taken
> from a current Squeak.  (as an example, take a look at
> http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/3480 - lots of very out of date examples
> there). Even simple things like organising into proper lists and editing
> text into proper paragraphs can help a lot in readability. You don't need
> to be a great expert to provide a valuable service here - but I bet that
> spending some time in the swiki will start to make you an expert, even if
> it's only by making you look up the real state of something!
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> If everyone on the squeak-dev list edited a swiki page once a week we'd
> very quickly see big improvements.
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> tim
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> tim Rowledge; tim at rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim
> I'm so skeptical that I'm not sure I'm really a skeptic
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