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Revision as of 20:03, 29 January 2013 by Tom Hutchison (talk | contribs) (→‎Long Term: updates)
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Under construction, will eventually be moved to JDOC:Documentation Wiki Roadmap. Please post all comments to the Hutchy68/Docs Wiki Roadmap talk page. Please feel free to add appropriate items to the Roadmap.

This might need to be wider in scope for Documentation.

Docs Wiki Roadmap[edit]

Short Term[edit]

  • Identify documentation needs by user type better
  • Beginners - need to be more targeted
  • Developers - more involvement, better method of involvement
  • Web designers - target ease of design, better articles targeted towards CSS, Bootstrap
  • Administrators - target common tasks with more detail
  • Evaluators - ideas needed?
  • Home page
  • Navigation
    • Portal pages
    • Better documentation search
    • Improve structure
    • Namespace aliases for easier link building
  • Spam control
  • Clean up redundant and incomplete pages (what was started and never finished, or redundant)

Long Term[edit]

  • Increase developer contributions
    • Welcome new users on user talk pages! Give them some additional information, style guide, templates available, etc.
    • Editor assistance
      • Adopt an editor? Help new wiki users
    • Wiki Doc Projects
  • Developers
  • Designers
  • Better tutorials, multipage, PDF's created for download
    • Developer feedback
    • Enhance styleguide
  • API integration with Platform and CMS
  • Help Screen development simplify
    • Focus on first STS, ported to subsequent STS versions, with a 'Final' for LTS

Nice to have eventually[edit]

  • VEL page
    • Improvement for editing by approved VEL members
    • Searching
    • Improved look
    • Integration with administration for VEL notifications of installed Extensions.

Investigation[edit]

  • Semantic Mediawiki
    • Use of property values within articles/API
    • External data capture in XML or JSON (other formats also available)