[sldev] [AWG] AWG wiki restructuring

[Lawson English]

Liana Holmberg wrote:
> Thanks for the questions, folks. I'm in the midst of moving pages and 
> editing the AWG homepage and category space, so some of the 
> inconsistencies you've noticed may now be resolved or will be 
> shortly.  Meanwhile, here's some more info on the what and the why of 
> our recent wiki wrangling.
>
> * Rationale
> Our goal has been to narrow the scope of the AWG homepage 
> <https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Architecture_Working_Group> and AWG 
> category 
> <https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Category:Architecture_Working_Group> 
> space so that it's easier to see what needs to be done and navigate to 
> the places where work has been done. I've made every effort not to 
> orphan pages. All the pages linked off the old homepage or AWG 
> category are now  (one or all of the following):
> - referenced off the new homepage, according to the logical section it 
> belongs under (e.g., responses to the architecture overview from 
> meeting 1 are now linked off the AWG Meeting 1 
> <https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/AWG_Meeting_1> page)
> - referenced via a category, depending on scope (e.g., AWG, 
> AWGroupies, or VAG). I removed the AWG category from many pages but 
> left all other categories intact.
> - moved to user space. If a page was not associated with a category 
> and had a dominant author, I moved it to that person's user space. 
> Feel free to link user pages to appropriate categories (e.g., The 
> Incubator, AW Groupies).
>
> * Vetting pages for inclusion in AWG wiki space
> I encourage people to develop their ideas in user space. Once you've 
> got a mature design document, then bring it up at Zero's office hours 
> <https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/User:Zero_Linden#Office_Hours> or at 
> the weekly open source meeting 
> <https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Open_Source_Meeting>. Provided the 
> topic is within the scope of AWG, we can then determine what section 
> of the AWG wiki space it belongs in and hammer out any design details 
> or next steps. Mark's Geometry Based Architecture 
> <https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/User:Burhop_Piccard/Geometry_Based_Architecture_View> 
> page is a good example of something that is ready to be vetted at a 
> meeting.
> If a doc is outside the AWG scope but of obvious interest to members 
> of the community, then you're welcome to move it into The Incubator 
> area where it can receive better visibility and more development than 
> in user space alone. Or, the doc might find a home in the VAG or AW 
> Groupies category areas. It's up to you. (By "move", I mean that you 
> add a category to your document. "Moving" into one of the category 
> spaces above may or may not involve renaming a page.)
>
> * Naming pages
> I reclaimed some high-level page names for AWG in order to prevent 
> confusion. For example, as our work process gets more complex, we may 
> need a whole page for AWG Process, rather than just the page section 
> <https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/About_AWG#Process>we have now.  Zha 
> Ewry had already created the page "AWG Process" and started a great 
> discussion there. I moved that to Zha's user space as Proposed AWG 
> Process 
> <https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/User_talk:Zha_Ewry/Proposed_AWG_Process>. 
> Once that proposal is more seasoned, then it can be vetted in a 
> meeting and the ideas moved into the high-level "AWG Process" page.
> As a general note, when making wiki pages please take care to choose 
> page names that will not cause confusion. Developing proposals in user 
> space will help keep high-level page names free for seasoned documents.
>
> I'm putting AWG wiki wrangling on the agenda for this week's open 
> source meeting for further discussion. If you're concerned about any 
> particular edits, let me know.
>
> Cheers,
> L
>
Thanks Liana. Right now, I believe our criterion for using the AW 
Groupies category tag is that is related to the AWG in some way (even if 
not part of the near-term (2-year) agenda that Zero has set out) and 
that it has been produced by some member of the in-world group. This 
allows all pages at least one higher-level reference so that interested 
parties can find it and comment/contribute to it.

So, any Groupies with such pages, please add the category tag to it, 
even if it IS part of the main AWG category already (for adevertising 
purposes for our group, if for no other reason).

Also, any of you who are not part of AW Groupies are certainly welcome 
to join it. If you are reading this, you qualify. If you have written a 
page on the topic on the wiki, you qualify. Regardless, virtually every 
page on the wiki related to these matters should qualify for inclusion 
on the AW Groupies index since everyone interested enough to create such 
a page should be a member.  IM Zha Ewry, Tree Kyomoon or Saijanai Kuhn 
in-world, for an invite.


Lawson aka Saijanai Kuhn