Debian wiki is quite a mess, and I wonder if there’s a co-ordinated effort to improve it. Sure there must be good pages, but the majority is sub-standard. Is there a wiki page somewhere titled along the lines of “these pages are in desperate need of improvements”? It would particularly be useful if page hit counts for these pages were included so that we know which pages are of higher priority.
Stefano Zacchiroli
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First of all: it’s a wiki! so if you want to help out improving its content, well, you can just do that :–) In most cases, it’s redundant to ask “can I help?” if you can at the same time just go ahead and do that. Please consider that your help is welcome.
Regarding your specific question, there is an introductory page, which gives various inputs on how you can help with the wiki, including editorial documents.
If, on the other hand, you would like to coordinate “big” changes which will affect many many pages, then it’s wise to check the contact page and in particular the webmasters (both pages are linked from the one above). But remember, the basic rule stands: “just do it”.
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Gerfried Fuchs
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The Webmasters though aren’t responsible for the wiki. It’s seperate services and seperate teams, and currently I’m not aware of any overlap within the two teams. :)
I haven’t seen that many “sub-standard” pages yet and if you encounter one, why not improve it as you use it? That way you’ll only pick pages that are used (at least by you) and you’ll only pick pages where you actually know more than is listed on the page (after doing research to solve your problem).