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

Nicolas Cellier nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com
Fri Apr 6 09:28:03 UTC 2018


2018-04-06 11:11 GMT+02:00 H. Hirzel <hannes.hirzel at gmail.com>:

> On 4/6/18, Nicolas Cellier <nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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
>
> Nicolas,
>
> Do you have a particular idea how  an implemenation plan/ outline of
> tasks to do  for 'rerouting the rivers for the water to be used for
> cleaning' would look like?
>
> --Hannes
>
> Hi Hannes,
isn't it precisely what Tim (and you) are trying to achieve thru this call
to goodwill?



> >
> >> 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 but far more worrying is the out of date state of so many pages.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 http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/3480 - lots of very out of date examples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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