Friday June 20, 2008 Seapegasus Blog
Friday June 20, 2008 After our update to the NetBeans community homepage last month, we now also updated the NetBeans Wiki homepage, have a look.
Since we want to keep the wiki fast and clear, we didn't add tons of spiffy graphics or whatever. The plan was rather to remove less often used links from the frontpage to reduce clutter, and restructure some topics. So do you find what you are looking for? Which links on the wiki front page did you use least and most often? And how do you like my supa-dupa crooked three column layout hack? :-D
Remember, you can (and should) add links from and to pages that you often use together -- I say that because it does happen that people create a very helpful page but then forget to link it to anything. It's best to start from the front page, and drill down one or two links that relate to your topic, and then create a new page by adding a link. When you click the new link, an empty page will be created and it's already findable.
A lot of people already do that on a daily basis: The idea of course is to use the wiki for sharing dynamic content that is modified often and by a wide range of people. For example the localization teams keep track of the translation status; then there are FAQs and community docs - whether you have a short answer or an elaborate tutorials, it's supposed to be quick and easy to share and update; the third big user group are the engineers who plan features and schedule releases on the wiki.
This is in contrast to the more permanent content on www.netbeans.org, like downloads and plugins, release notes and feature descriptions, licenses and governance board, news and interviews, offical tutorials and quickstarts, etc - you get the picture. :D
Happy wikiing! (Spellchecker says: "No, silly. It's Happy Viking!" *Sigh*)
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