Knowledge Base changes
Temporary introduction
I (Mozcerize) have created this page for several reasons.
- It would be nice to have a place where new editors can introduce themselves and meet existing editors.
- It would be good to allow new editors to safely propose content changes (minor or major) prior to implementing them.
- It would be good to have a central location to discuss the style, content and organisation of this Knowledge Base. (Some of the ideas in Talk:Knowledge Base can be migrated here, leaving that page solely for discussion of the front page article itself.
- This page is an attempt to address recent incidents that have occured on the KB where some groups of editors have been unaware of major changes being made by other groups of editors.
I hope to place a link to this page in the "welcome to new editors" paragraphs found on the front page and from the other "entrance" pages such as Firefox and Thunderbird.
I anticipate this page being the primary place to announce new suggestions. Please visit it regularly!
Welcome to new editors
Hello! Great to have you here. Please add a comment here :-)
Hot topic—implementing and using categories
Discussion on categorizing articles can be found at Talk:Rules/Categories.
Discussion of this proposal can be found on Talk:Rules/Categories). Some editors were not aware of this discussion (see Talk:Issues with Firefox and Talk:Rules/Categories#Flattening the Thunderbird categories). This was the main motivation for creating this page.
To summarize the situation so far:
Part of the motivation for implementing categories was to avoid the following situation which occurred with the original FAQs, Issues and Tips pages: article links had to be maintained manually; some articles appeared on more than one page; some articles didn't appear on any page. The result was that people had to look at all three pages to makes sure they didn't miss anything, and then perform a search as well. With categories, the danger that an article was never linked to from anywhere was removed, since category automatically list the articles. There was no opposition to removing the Tips pages.
The suggestion to temove the FAQs and Issues pages was more controversial. Indeed, the problem with relying solely on category listings is that logical order is lost. The initial solution proposed was to use the editable part at the top of the category pages to recreate some logical order by factoring in parts of the FAQs and Issues pages.
- My current opinion on this is that the FAQ and Issues pages should be kept, because they contain more info that could sensibly be placed in the category pages. However, I do think that they should both contain prominant links to the category pages, notifying the reader that there is more info on the KB than the selection of articles advertised on the FAQ and Issues pages. Indeed, I would suggest renaming "Issues " to "Common Issues with Firefox" to emphasise the fact that the Issues page is just a selection. --Mozcerize 15:00, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
Hot topic—the new front page
See Knowledge Base and Talk:Knowledge Base.
