Re: howto and faq

["Keld Jørn Simonsen" <keld@dkuug.dk>]

On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 06:21:08PM +0000, David Greaves wrote:
> Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote:
> > I would then like that to be reflected in the main page.
> > I would rather that this be called "Howto and FAQ - Linux raid"
> > than "Main Page - Linux Raid". Is that possible?
> 
> Just like C has a main() wiki's have a Main Page :)
> 
> I guess it could be changed but I think it involves editing the Mediawiki config
> - maybe next time I'm in there...

I would appreciate if this change be made soon...

> > And then, how do we structure the pages? I think we need a new section
> > for the FAQ.
> 
> By all means create an FAQ page and link to answers or other relevant sections
> of the wiki. Bear in mind that this is a reference work and whilst it may
> contain tutorials the idea is that it contains (reasonably) authoritative
> information about the linux raid subsystem (linking to the source, kernel docs
> or man pages if that's more appropriate).

I have now created a FAQ section on the wiki.

> > I have had a look at other search engines, yahoo and msn.
> > Our pages do show up within the 10 first hits for "linux raid".
> > So that is not that bad. Still, Google has the
> > http://linux-raid.osdl.org/ page as number 127. That is very bad.
> > Maybe something about it being referenced from wikipedia?

We are now number 6 on google for "linux raid". Most of the other top pages
are quite old info, say 4 to 8 years old, and not mentioning mdadm nor
raid10. I would like to do some work to get rid of the outdated info, as
it is quite bad guidance to users. I have contacted a number of the
authors for the other top pages, but to no avail.

I have then looked at who is referencing the top pages, via the Google
"link: URL" feature. For our own pages this is a sad story. Almost
nobody but ourselves are referencing it. That is, the links are mostly
our own pages referencing our own pages, or mail archive pages of
linux-raid ML referencing the wiki. 

I would really like to have this improved. That is, if people on this ML
could add links to http://linux-raid.osdl.org/ eg from their home pages
- "I am participating in the Linux kernel RAID mailing list with wiki
pages at http://linux-raid.osdl.org/" and/or include a reference to the
URL when discussing RAID issues on other fora. 

Best regards
Keld
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