From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Keld =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F8rn?= Simonsen Subject: Re: howto and faq Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 12:32:43 +0200 Message-ID: <20080511103243.GA1128@rap.rap.dk> References: <20080207164249.GA7116@rap.rap.dk> <47AECC59.1020808@dgreaves.com> <20080210111404.GA4823@rap.rap.dk> <47AF4094.3040702@dgreaves.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <47AF4094.3040702@dgreaves.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: David Greaves Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 06:21:08PM +0000, David Greaves wrote: > Keld J=F8rn 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? >=20 > Just like C has a main() wiki's have a Main Page :) >=20 > I guess it could be changed but I think it involves editing the Media= wiki 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 sect= ion > > for the FAQ. >=20 > 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) authorita= tive > information about the linux raid subsystem (linking to the source, ke= rnel 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 p= ages 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 I would like to do some work to get rid of the outdated info, a= s it is quite bad guidance to users.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.=20 I would really like to have this improved. That is, if people on this M= L 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.=20 Best regards Keld -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html