[IAEP] new getting started guide

[David Farning]

On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 17:38 -0400, Walter Bender wrote:
> How do I make an interwiki link?
> 
> -walter
There is a good how to at 
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Guide_for_system_administrators_for_setting_up_interwiki_linking#Setting_up_interwiki_links

Dfarning
> 
> On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 5:33 PM, David Farning <dfarning at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 16:32 -0400, Walter Bender wrote:
> >> The Getting Started Guide that I wrote for the laptop.org site is very
> >> OLPC-XO-1-centric and also not very current. I don't see this as a
> >> duplication effort--rather as an effort to distill the essence of a
> >> Sugar user manual from a general how-to-use-an-XO manual. I think it
> >> is very much worthwhile flagging the various platform dependencies,
> >> such as specialized keyboard, etc. In the one page I have worked on so
> >> far, there is not really an equivalent in the OLPC wiki, so the
> >> interwiki strategy is not really going to work.
> >>
> >> -walter
> >
> > My apologies for not being clear.  I agree entirely that the sugar-centric getting
> > started guide is very important.
> >
> > The bit about duplication was in regards to the new OLPC/* links.  As much as possible, they should be
> > interwiki links straight back to w.l.o.  If we start trying to keep the sugar wiki up to date with hardware
> > or distribution specific materials we will drown.
> >
> > I am thinking of the w.s.o getting started guide as a generic starting
> > point from which other distributions and vendors base their getting
> > started guides.
> >
> > thanks
> > Dfarning
> >
> >> > I think SJ made a very valid point when he suggested that we not
> >> > duplicate content between the wikis.
> >> >
> >> > There is a rather long thread at
> >> > http://lists.lo-res.org/pipermail/its.an.education.project/2008-June/000884.html which makes several good points.
> >> >
> >> > In Summary we should:
> >> >
> >> > 1. Decide how the content should be split up between the wikis.
> >> > 2. Use interwiki links freely.
> >> > 3. Follow the guidelines at
> >> > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC:Transwiki#SugarLabs to move content
> >> > between the wikis.
> >> >
> >> > Setting up the interwiki link is pretty easy but it does take someone
> >> > with privileges to the wiki database.
> >> >
> >> > As for how to split the content, that is above my pay grade. But I do
> >> > have a couple of bots that can help mechanize the process.
> >> >
> >> > Thanks
> >> > Dfarning
> >> >
> >> >
> >
> >