Also: what about the user guide over at FLOSS manuals? <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 5:41 PM, David Farning <<a href="mailto:dfarning@gmail.com">dfarning@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="Ih2E3d">On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 17:38 -0400, Walter Bender wrote: > How do I make an interwiki link? > > -walter </div>There is a good how to at <a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Guide_for_system_administrators_for_setting_up_interwiki_linking#Setting_up_interwiki_links" target="_blank">http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Guide_for_system_administrators_for_setting_up_interwiki_linking#Setting_up_interwiki_links</a> Dfarning <div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">> > On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 5:33 PM, David Farning <<a href="mailto:dfarning@gmail.com">dfarning@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 16:32 -0400, Walter Bender wrote: > >> The Getting Started Guide that I wrote for the <a href="http://laptop.org" target="_blank">laptop.org</a> 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 > >> > <a href="http://lists.lo-res.org/pipermail/its.an.education.project/2008-June/000884.html" target="_blank">http://lists.lo-res.org/pipermail/its.an.education.project/2008-June/000884.html</a> 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 > >> > <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC:Transwiki#SugarLabs" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC:Transwiki#SugarLabs</a> 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 > >> > > >> > > > > > _______________________________________________ Its.an.education.project mailing list <a href="mailto:Its.an.education.project@lists.lo-res.org">Its.an.education.project@lists.lo-res.org</a> <a href="http://lists.lo-res.org/mailman/listinfo/its.an.education.project" target="_blank">http://lists.lo-res.org/mailman/listinfo/its.an.education.project</a> </div></div></blockquote></div>