2018-04-06 11:04 GMT+02:00 Nicolas Cellier <
nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com>:

> By re-routing one or two rivers, it sounds effectively possible, but we
> need may little washing particles
>

No I don't promise it for May, I meant many


> 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>:
>
>>
>>
>> > On 05-04-2018, at 10:13 AM, K K Subbu <kksubbu.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > wiki.squeak.org/squeak is an excellent resource for Squeakers.
>> However, it's interface is a bit dated and could do with some improvements.
>>
>> 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 but far more worrying is the out of date state of so many pages.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}
>>
>> 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 http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/3480 - lots of very out of date examples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!
>>
>> If everyone on the squeak-dev list edited a swiki page once a week we'd
>> very quickly see big improvements.
>>
>> tim
>> --
>> 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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