[TYPO3-doc] purpose of wiki/ members

[Daniel Brüßler]

Hi Jakub,

ah - now I see you ;-)

Daniel

Jakub Tesinsky schrieb:
> I am the only onw registred from Czech republic :-)
> 
> 
>> Hi Jakub,
>>
>> please register at http://www.t3one.com and put the link to your image
>> into http://wiki.typo3.org/index.php/DocTeam#Members . Until now I just
>> know you by this newsgroup.
>>
>> kind regards
>> Daniel Brüßler
>>
>>
>> HJakub Tesinsky schrieb:
>>> Daniel Brüßler napsal(a):
>>>> Hello Jakub,
>>>>
>>>> and please take some time to see
>>>> http://wiki.typo3.org/index.php/Documentation_joblist#Current_activities
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> What tasks are not needed in your eyes, and what are missing?
>>> Firstly I should say that I do not understand many tasks. Also thought I
>>> am trying to understand the history and the state of Typo3 Documentation
>>>  by reading historic news and various wiki pages I feel that I
>>> understand less and less ;-)
>>>
>>> For me the single problem with wiki I see now is: IT IS TOO COMPLICATED.
>>>
>>> It can bee seen that there are several layers of various attempts to
>>> organize it. Most of them seem to be quite clever, but thre result is
>>> again the same: it is too complicated.
>>>
>>> I have been thinking about how to change it and did not find any idea
>>> yet. I have been even considering as the only way to restart from
>>> scratch - install new wiki, discuss the plan, and move contents here.
>>> But it might be too brutal way.
>>>
>>> For me it seems to me that you work hard, but I scare that you are too
>>> concerned with technicalities that you have no time to do the most
>>> important think: lead the way.
>>>
>>> Right now I think that the only hope to wiki might be to start with some
>>> very small part - maybe one page and surroundings and try to do this
>>> part as good as possible. Make it uncluttered and understandable for
>>> newbies. I think it should not be anything too "big" like homepage which
>>> would lead to neverending discussions. Let it be something simple. I see
>>> that Mathew already found place of interest and as it is the first bold
>>> link on homepage, we might start with this: "Getting started".
>>>
>>> Main problem with typo3 Documetation is not that there is not enough
>>> documetation. The main problem is that there is no single place where
>>> everything is and that there is no order in documents. The existing
>>> documents overlap in parts, some topics are not covered.
>>>
>>> The conclusion: it is useless to write new documentation, we should
>>> organize the existing one.
>>>
>>> This is very big task, but I suggest that we start on one place (for
>>> example "Getting started" page) and idetify what topics should be
>>> gathered here. Than we should gather all available documentation on
>>> identified topics and transfer them (manually) to wikispace. If they
>>> overlap, than merge their corresponding parts.
>>>
>>> On the way we can discuss more general topics.