RE: [dita-fa-edboard] Gateway pages for the Wiki, specialization pages,

["JoAnn Hackos" <joann.hackos@comtech-serv.com>]

Thanks Bob et al.
We're actually moving ahead on all of this. Difficult when we don't work
on it full time. Luckily we have Bob!

Best,
JoAnn 


JoAnn T. Hackos, PhD
President
Comtech Services, Inc.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Doyle [mailto:bobdoyle@skybuilders.com] 
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 2:17 PM
To: DITA Editorial Board
Subject: [dita-fa-edboard] Gateway pages for the Wiki, specialization
pages, and updated content

Hi all,

I turned all the headings on the Knowledgebase into links to gateway
pages.

Those that did not exist I created, and pasted in code from the
Knowledgebase page.

Those that already existed have some content in the form of the
automated Drupal links that are created when you make a page a child of
another page.

This clumsy enforced hierarchy, with its bottom-of-page,
even-more-clumsy next-previous navigation was, I believe, a reason
behind Su-Laine's criticism of hierarchy.

If she had been on the call, I think she would have agreed with
Michael's observation about Wikipedia hierarchies, like disambiguation
pages and categories.

Anyway, those of you who elect to write a shortdesc for each gateway
page might talk with Carol, who can show you how to implement the
Drupal-style hierarchy.

For my part, I think it sucks. My Drupal clients don't use it.

I also found Bruce Esrig's Introduction to Specialization page and added
it to the Knowledgebase (we do have a knowledgebase if not a true wiki).

I am a little vague on why we have both an Introduction to
Specializationss (submitted by Bruce)  and a Specializations page
(submitted by Carol).

Bruce has a few pages on possible future specializations - taxonomies,
training (we have this), and troubleshooting (we have this too). We need
to rewrite his old content.

I added Troubleshooting and Training to the Knowledgebase.

Troubleshooting is currently a News page.

I rewrote Troubleshooting as a Wiki page and brought its content up to
date. The SourceForge link went to the general DITA OT page instead of
something specific to Troubleshooting.

I added the links on the Specializations page to the Knowledgebase.

I also added JoAnn's white paper to the Business Case page.
http://dita.xml.org/wiki/making-the-business-case-for-dita

Cheers.

Bob

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