{"id":109,"date":"2009-11-30T14:06:49","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T14:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/?p=109"},"modified":"2009-11-30T14:06:49","modified_gmt":"2009-11-30T14:06:49","slug":"a-call-to-arms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/2009\/11\/a-call-to-arms\/","title":{"rendered":"A Call to Arms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>subtitle: Is UserBase selling you short?<\/p>\n<p>If you follow my blogs you&#8217;ll know that one of my preoccupations in UserBase is with navigation.\u00a0 More than once I&#8217;ve seen a mailing list message that UserBase contains no information about a particular problem, whereon I&#8217;ve had to reply with a link to the information.\u00a0 The search facility built in to the wiki is not good, and we have plans to do something about that, but that alone isn&#8217;t enough.<\/p>\n<p>When I first saw Dolphin I fell in love with Breadcrumb Navigation, and I have wanted something like that for UserBase ever since.\u00a0 I began manually adding breadcrumbs, but stopped when it was pointed out that scalability was a big problem.\u00a0 We now have over 1000 pages.\u00a0 It just isn&#8217;t a solution on that scale.\u00a0 Now we are looking at possible mediawiki extensions to deal with the problem.\u00a0 There are several, and at the moment we have not made the decision as to which best suits our purpose.\u00a0 However, most of them do rely on pages being allocated to Categories, so for the last week I have concentrated on getting those categories working.\u00a0 I&#8217;m mopping up the last few English pages now, and when I&#8217;ve discussed with our active translators I&#8217;ll help them get the translated pages categorized as well.\u00a0 That&#8217;s the good news part.<\/p>\n<p>While I&#8217;ve been doing this, I&#8217;ve had an enormous shock.\u00a0 I found pages that I had forgotten existed.\u00a0 Worse, everyone else seems to have forgotten them too.\u00a0\u00a0 Once we get our navigation improved all those are going to be so much more visible &#8211; and you will not be happy with the result.\u00a0 I really need your help.\u00a0 I need you to look for the page for your application, then also use the Category link at the bottom of the page to check for related pages.\u00a0 I need you to check for these things &#8211;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Are the screenshots horribly out of date?<\/li>\n<li>Is a revision, either of the application or required SC version, mentioned and is it up to date?<\/li>\n<li>Are there links to related UserBase pages that are no longer relevant?<\/li>\n<li>If there are links to external project pages, are those links still correct?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Then there are at least two applications that have compile instructions on UserBase.\u00a0 From the start we agreed that those are not for the average user.\u00a0 After consulting the developer mailing list it was agreed that the UserBase page should carry a link to a page under http:\/\/techbase.kde.org\/Projects, and the compile instructions moved there.<\/p>\n<p>We have so many plans to improve UserBase over the coming months.\u00a0 It would be a pity if that improvement caused embarrassment by exposing such problems, so please take a good look at your pages.\u00a0 You are always welcome to contact me by email, or to catch me on #kde-www.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>subtitle: Is UserBase selling you short? 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