[IAEP] new getting started guide

[Seth Woodworth]

Also: what about the user guide over at FLOSS manuals?

On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 5:41 PM, David Farning <dfarning at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.htmlwhich 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
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >
> > >
>
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