[Phpmyadmin-devel] discussing wiki changes

[Marc Delisle]

Michal Čihař a écrit :
> Hi
> 
> Dne Mon, 31 Jan 2011 11:58:47 -0500
> Isaac Bennetch <bennetch at gmail.com> napsal(a):
> 
>> For those of you who are involved with the wiki, there are a few large 
>> changes we're discussing. Michal proposed that this might be the best 
>> vehicle for discussion, which seems to make good sense to me.
>>
>> First:
>> Marc basically suggested creating subcategories for "Google Summer of 
>> Code"; that would be the parent category with subcategories like "Google 
>> Summer of Code 2011". Then pages like "GSoC 2011 Ideas List" would be in 
>> "Category: Google Summer of Code 2011" which would then in turn be 
>> "Category: Google Summer of Code". "GSoC 2011 Ideas List" would not 
>> appear directly in "Google Summer of Code".
> 
> Okay for me.
> 
> 
>> Second:
>> It's been proposed to completely abandon namespaces (such as Devel:) -- 
>> in some cases they can help, such as when a page clearly belongs only to 
>> one namespace or the other, but many of our pages (for instance, the 
>> GSoC pages) either live in the wrong namespace or could be assigned to both.
>>
>> I do agree that everything currently in Devel: belongs there, but some 
>> things in the (Main) namespace probably belong in Devel: and it might be 
>> easier to administrate only one namespace...Then we wouldn't have to 
>> think about (or discuss) which namespace a page belongs to or move it if 
>> content changes.
> 
> I never got an idea of namespaces, so I have nothing against not using
> this feature :-).

The left side of the wiki's home page contains news that are not up to 
date. I suggest remplacing these by a link to 
http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/news.php

and use the space to put links to some "hot" categories, for example 
GSoC 2011 and Development.

-- 
Marc Delisle
http://infomarc.info