[IndiChix] Wiki of the month ?

[Runa Bhattacharjee]

Hey,

Ankita Garg wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> On Feb 1, 2008 1:13 PM, Runa Bhattacharjee <runa.misc at gmail.com 
> <mailto:runa.misc at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi,
> 
> 
>     Ankita Garg wrote:
>      > Hi All!
>      >
>      > On Feb 1, 2008 10:41 AM, Runa Bhattacharjee <runa.misc at gmail.com
>     <mailto:runa.misc at gmail.com>
>      > <mailto:runa.misc at gmail.com <mailto:runa.misc at gmail.com>>> wrote:
>      >
>      >
>      >
>      >     Ankita Garg wrote:
>     [snip]
> 
>      >      >
>      >      >     We all understand that it is  extremely important to
>      >      >     build/design/populate our wiki. To this effect, I was
>      >     wondering if
>      >      >     we could have a 'wiki page of the week' concept. So,
>     it would
>      >     be our
>      >      >     task to populate a particular wiki page (chosen for
>     the week)
>      >     in a
>      >      >     week.
> 
>     [snip]
>      >      >
>      >     +1 on this :-)
>      >
>      >     Proposal: Can we take up the Newbie page up for whatever
>     remains of
>      >     this week and for the entire
>      >     next week.
>      >
>      >     http://linuxchix.org.in/wiki/index.php/NewBieCorner
>      >
>      >
>      > +1 for this :) Runa, can you share with us about what is in your mind
>      > for this page? any idea of the layout and the type of information
>     that
>      > we might want to put up here...
> 
>     Ankita, The initial thoughts while creating the page layout was as
>     follows:
> 
> 
>     Section 1: Group related  information,  like:
> 
>     @ joining procedure
>     @ mailing -list/irc/wiki/meeting related guidelines
>     @ wiki-pages or sections worth visiting (e.g like the citymeet pages
>     or event sections)
> 
>     Section 2: General information that would be helpful for newbies to
>     FOSS, like
> 
>     @ useful urls with  elementary information about FOSS, contribution
>     or volunteering opportunities
>     @ FAQs and Howtos about FOSS application usage (external or internal
>     wiki content link)
>     @ FAQs and Howtos about  FOSS community culture (external or
>     internal wiki content link)  and links
>     to similar interest groups
>     @ Links to existing podcasts/screencasts about the above (external
>     or created and hosted by LC-IN
>     members)
> 
> 
> IMO, we could have only Section 2. As information about becoming part of 
> linuxchix would be present in another wiki right? As of now, its present 
> on the main page itself. 

Yup, it is in the "Joining Us" section on the main page.  The idea for the section 1  was to collate 
all this spread-out information  so that newbies could get them in one page without too much 
navigation (when they are not familiar with the wiki right after joining). Basically pointers to 
existing information. Not mandatory at all :-)

cheers
Runa


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