[Bf-docboard] How to move the wiki to 2.6+

[mindrones]

Hi,

sorry, I forgot to mention that Jim Tucker is working in his user space
to enhance the game engine chapter.


I'll add more about this in the mail about wiki todos too.


Regards,
Luca



On 12/16/2011 01:03 PM, mindrones wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> quick update.
> 
> 
> What has been done in November
> -------------------------------
> 
> 1)
> 
> Bastien and I have restructured the manuals, both 2.6 and 2.4.
> 
> 
> 2)
> 
> Valter Battioli has patiently reviewed most the manual to spot all kind
> of problems, using an ad-hoc template that helps us to make a global
> report of the manual status, see:
> 
> http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Meta:Wiki_Tasks/Review_2.6_Manual
> 
> There's still a bit of work to be done to complete that report, but
> we're nearly there.
> 
> 
> 3)
> 
> I have moved:
> 
> - the old manual to Doc:2.4/Manual
> - the 2.5 manual to Doc:2.6/Manual, also merging it with 2.6 contents
> that was already in Doc:2.6/Manual (cycles, motion tracking, etc)
> 
> 
> 4)
> 
> After all these moves, I'm now fixing all the internal links and
> redirects (hopefully this part is automatic but it takes some time,
> should done in a couple if days).
> 
> 
> 
> What's next
> ------------
> 
> 1)
> 
> After the maintenance, we'll re-index and finally I'll do the wiki sitemap.
> 
> Without going into details, I'll manipulate the sitemap produced by
> mediawiki to give higher priority to 2.6 content.
> 
> 
> 2)
> 
> Kesten Broughton volunteered to help spotting and fixing all the heading
> problems in the manual pages, see
> 
> http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Kesten/Projects/WikiAssignment1
> 
> Basically this is needed for SEO (missing/duplicate/generic <h1>s
> confuse search engines) and also he gets his feet wet with the manual.
> 
> 
> 3)
> 
> Using templates to compile an automatic report about the manual status
> helps to keep track of what's going on in the manual, and to define
> clear todos (even small ones) for contributors, so soon we'll be able to
> distribute tasks to writers: we'll mail about this when the review will
> be done.
> 
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Luca
> 
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