Re: howto and faq

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>]

Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote:
> 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 I would like to do some work to get rid of the outdated info, as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. 
>   

Just a public thanks and "please do" for this. I will update my 
appropriate pages with this on the next update.

-- 
Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  "Woe unto the statesman who makes war without a reason that will still
  be valid when the war is over..." Otto von Bismark 



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