[Typo3-documentation] Wiki: Links to documentation on Typo3.org

[Johannes Reichardt]

Hi Peter, i just had this idea for a structure:

How to use this Wiki
    Getting Information
    Adding Information

The big Typo3 picture
    How Typo3 works
    Who can use typo3
    What is needed to run Typo3

The basics for users
    Getting Help
    Installing Typo3
    Setting up a basic Webpage
    Installing and configuring a Plugin

For advanced users
    Create your own Extension
    Frontend Functions
    Backend Functions
    Typoscript Reference

General
    Typo3 coding Guidelines
    Features missing
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    Philosophy
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What you think? Thats what would help me personally most

>>The front page of http://wiki.typo3.org/index.php/Main_Page has many 
>>links, that just point to finished manuals on Typo3.org.
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>>Why that?
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>I think what Typo3 lacks most when it comes to documentation is 
>structure! So the first thing we did was deciding on a common 
>structure suitable for _all_ Typo3 doc. And the easies way of 
>showing this structure to everyone was to implement in as the 
>main structure on the wiki.
>It is also meant to be a guide for new contributors when they 
>want to add a new document - in that way we have a better 
>chance to keep the wiki well structured even in the future. 
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>>To me that seems rather confusing...
>>I'd prefer a clean and mean front page having only links to documents 
>>existing IN THE WIKI and HAVING CONTENTS.
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>You got a point, but the empty pages are marked with "no 
>content". And  I don't agree that the wiki structure should 
>just contain links to wiki pages - I think it should contain 
>links to ALL Typo3 documents (except extension manuals, right 
>now).
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>>IMHO having so many links that point to "uninteresting" wiki pages (e.g. 
>>pages just containing links to typo3.org) keeps the users from seeing 
>>the good wiki pages. So if we there would be fewer uninteresting links 
>>on the front page, more people would look at the (few) existing 
>>documents and help improving it.
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>I think that information and news articles in the new groups 
>about DocTEAM, wiki and our projects, give us more helping 
>hands than a main wiki page with fewer links... :-) And with a 
>good, consistenet structure I dont think people will have a 
>hard time finding the documents they need?
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>>I think if typo3.org is still the main hub of documentation, the wiki 
>>doesn't have to have links to that.
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>>In my eyes, the Wiki is just a tool to create documentation, and should 
>>not necessarily be the guide in the jungle of Typo3 documentation.
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>True, but since typo3.org has a bad structure (IMHO) and the 
>possibilty to change that is small, we have to have that guide 
>somewhere - and right now the wiki is the only alternativ! If 
>you don't have other ideas, of course?
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>In the future, if we produce some great documents and get most 
>Typo3 documents into an easy to understand structure, I believe 
>things will change...
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>>Excuse me if you've already discussed that, I didn't follow all the 
>>posts in here.
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>It ok! It is always interesting to hear what people think about 
>things...
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