FusionWiki Article and Organization Assessment

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The following assessment was written by User:AdamDobay after a proposal to Jamie on Gwerdy Chat some time ago. It was last updated on 14 September, 2010.

Contents

Progress

Completed phases

The first, second, third and fourth phases of the FusionWiki overhaul is complete! Hooray! Thanks to User:Jamie for helping me a lot along the way. Further thanks go out to Retriever2 and Looki. AdamDobay 20:46, 9 October 2010 (UTC)

Done:

  • Preparation: Assessed FusionWiki articles and proposed rearrangement. See below.
  • Phase 1: Rearranging and merging articles, creating article hubs. See below.
  • Phase 2: Create Extensions hub.
  • Phase 3: Create FAQ hub.
  • Phase 4 a.k.a. The Big Move -- part 1: Move information about extensions from Released Extension forum & MMF2's built-in extensions to the Extensions hub. Information written for about 150 extensions, about 10 were moved to the 'unsupported' list (25 altogether), and there is about 80 extensions left in the list to fill out.

Coming up next:

  • Phase 5 a.k.a. The Big Move -- part 2: Move Q&A-format information from the forums to the FAQ for easier and organized access.
  • Phase 6: Create hub for Tutorials & Examples, Widgets & Snippets.

You can help by:

  • Moving ANY information from the forums to the FAQ.
  • Other tasks have been moved to the Jobs page, please see there!

Original assessment

Basics about this document and the organization scheme

  • I’ve sifted through all of the articles available on the FusionWiki’s Allpages website dated September 6, 2010. (http://www.fusionwiki.com/wiki/Special:AllPages). I have marked articles based on their completeness, and then sorted them into categories that could branch off the Main page to create a more organized wiki and to ease accessibility.
  • High-priority articles were marked bold.
  • Articles marked stub contain only one sentence or a sentence fragment, and should either be expanded or merged with articles of a similar purpose or merged into parent articles (if they have one; I have proposed parent articles in some cases).
  • Articles marked basic contain the basic information on the given subject. (In the case of extensions, basic articles lack details about usually more than one of the following: actions, conditions, expressions, usages and examples.)
  • Articles marked detailed contain much information on their subject. Even if things could be added, they are essentially okay for now. (In the case of extensions, they usually lack just one subsection to be finished.)

Main findings

  • There’s too many articles, which makes things difficult for multiple reasons. First, it is hard for people to see what’s on the Wiki. Second, it’s hard for potential editors to see what should be added. Simply by loading the main page there is absolutely no way to tell even how big the Wiki is.
  • Assessing article completeness, it was surprising to find that out of only about 100 articles, almost half are stubs, with the other half being basic, and only a few detailes.
  • In extensions, most lacking is information about what each extension is used for. This should be the main concern in new articles about extensions as well as current extension articles (although the detailed extension articles handle this well)
  • Most lacking from the wiki is a separate Q&A and How-to section, which would be the best way to collect this type of information. The Wiki is better searchable than the forum, reducing the need to start one question-one answer topics on the forum. Also, given an organized base system (which I will propose), the Wiki format would make this section very useful and easily updatable.

Editing guidelines

General guidelines

  1. Don’t create new pages for articles that will never be longer than a few sentences – try to find parent articles to add sub-sections to, like Clickers and Clickteam-related developers in case of people.
  2. The exception to the above rule is Extensions, which should always have their own article.

Extension article guidelines

  1. If you create an article for an Extension, use the Extension page template, and link the finished article into the Extensions hub article, providing a one-sentence description for what the extension can be used for.
  2. Further guidelines to be determined :)

To do

How-to’s

These will be moved to the Tutorial hub when that is completed.

Placement done, content still needs improving

Main page

Clickteam current products

MMF2 Core Functions

This topic contains the most detailed articles on the Wiki. Stubs have been merged into Multimedia Fusion 2 until longer articles are written for them. Detailed articles are now all linked from Multimedia Fusion 2.

Extensions

Again, a hub should orient users with basic information, followed by links to individual extensions. These could appear in a table format and should probably already contain some information relating to the usage of the given extension.

Extensions currently on the Wiki

Extensions no longer supported

Bonus packs

Clickers

Main article: Clicker / Kliker (renamed Clickers; Clickers will probably not have very detailed articles and as such have been merged into the main Clicker article. Should this part of the wiki grow extensively, this can be changed. Note that some entries of the new page have to be cleaned up to create proper, encyclopaedic descriptions.)

Click-related websites

Main article: Click-related websites (new)

Clickteam & core staff

  • Clickteam / CT (stub; needs: company history, branches, people details, etc.)

Note that Clickteam staff members below all have stub articles only. Until these are substantially expanded, they were merged into the main Clickteam article.

Clickteam related people & groups

Main hub: Clickteam-related developers

With all of the below articles very basic, and will probably not be as detailed as an article about an extension, they were merged.

Miscellaneous articles

Main article: List of miscellaneous articles

Articles relating to programming languages

Uncategorized articles

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