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Goals:
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prioritize specific refactorings
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identify potential organizational techniques
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perform more significant refactorings with reviewers available for immediate sanity checks
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schedule future chats
Discussion of a proposed major wiki refactoring is in ThreadModeAndRefactorOk.
Refactoring Obsolete Pages
When refactoring obsolete pages, after content on the page has been summarized elsewhere, the page can be saved with the wiki page name CategoryObsolete as its only content. The grim reaper will then archive the page and its history. If the page has been a significant page, it should be saved with a '#redirect BetterPage' so that off-wiki links will be redirected to the better page.
Specific Topics For Refactoring
Specific refactorings (not prioritized)
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restate first paragraph
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bullet points should probably be severely pruned
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polls
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list of openpolls should probably be maintained manually to point to the most important ones.
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Separating the Open Polls out of Current Focus, and into a section in its own right.
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page needs to convey history, status, and goals, and it's not doing particularly well at any of that
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separate intro pages for developers / visitors
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provide a single naming status page and wiki-include it in all historical naming pages
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identify, mark, or archive obsolete pages
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XmlRpcDiscussion -- does XmlRpc capture the discussion?
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replace arbitrary format names with an easy to replace tag pending final naming decision
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make sure each page covers one topic
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factor larger pages into smaller ones, or summarize
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StatusReports should be status reports, milestones and current status elsewhere
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RoadMap should link to related pages
Refactorings requiring notice, discussion, and/or vote
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What to do with signed comments
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suggestion: flip around RefactorOk and make it NoRefactor
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Separate Thread and Document mode
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consolidate pages on similar/same topics
Organization
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Identify key target audiences and related information needs
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list "hot" pages
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look into FrontPage and SiteNavigation
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first impression
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organized collection of all topics
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Announcements
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reference implementations and examples, distinct from Tools
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linking Wiki/IRC/mail discussions
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Make this wiki the "one place to go" for all syndication/weblog formats and APIs.
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Individual Category pages for REST, XMLRPC and SOAP
Approach to Refactoring the Syntax related pages
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Take all the syntax related pages (as many as feasible) and build a list of topics discussed
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Create a Table of Contents out of the list of topics - each topic is its own page
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Create a map of the syntax pages detailing what pages link to what, so we can determine the endpoints
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Start at the endpoint pages and copy each resolved discussion, points and external references to the appropriate topic page
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When all the relevant info and points have been moved out of an endpoint page, then mark the page as redundant.
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Repeat with the pages that link to the endpoint.
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