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Talk:Supporting distributions (view source)
Revision as of 11:04, 30 June 2012
, 11:04, 30 June 2012moved Talk:Community/Distributions to Talk:Supported distributions: maintain history on new page
Please work to update [[Supported systems]] turning it into an index to the [[Community/Distributions]] subpages, which should each be moved to a top level page. --[[User:FGrose|FGrose]] 00:02, 27 June 2012 (EDT)
Please work to update [[Supported systems]] turning it into an index to the [[Community/Distributions]] subpages, which should each be moved to a top level page. --[[User:FGrose|FGrose]] 00:02, 27 June 2012 (EDT)
: Would this work? [[User:Inkyfingers/Supported_distributions|Supported distributions]] --[[User:Inkyfingers|Inkyfingers]] 19:14, 27 June 2012 (EDT)
: Would this work? [[User:Inkyfingers/Supported_distributions|Supported distributions]] --[[User:Inkyfingers|Inkyfingers]] 19:14, 27 June 2012 (EDT)
:: I'd rather stick with the titled concept, the shorter subset of supported systems/distributions, as opposed to a long list of unsupported ones. (A link to the DistroWatch list could be included for those curious about the scope of distributions and as part of a definition of what a distribution is.) --[[User:FGrose|FGrose]] 19:38, 27 June 2012 (EDT)
::: Sure, it would be edited down to the correct number of distros (as an index, easily enlargeable), but is this what you mean by "top level page"? --[[User:Inkyfingers|Inkyfingers]] 19:45, 27 June 2012 (EDT)
:::: Yes, for example, [[Community/Distributions/Ubuntu]] would be moved (using the wiki move page link) to [[Ubuntu]], replacing the redirect that is there now. --[[User:FGrose|FGrose]] 19:53, 27 June 2012 (EDT)
: How do you feel about a "clean page start", a pure index of [[Supported distributions]]? --[[User:Inkyfingers|Inkyfingers]] 20:04, 27 June 2012 (EDT)
:: That sounds reasonable. [[Supported distributions]] can be an annotated index, useful for transclusion to other pages such as [[Downloads#Do_you_use_GNU.2FLinux.3F|Downloads#Do you use GNU/Linux?]] and [[Sugar Creation Kit#Community Distributions A Complete Listing]]; [[Ways to run Sugar]] could hold the introductory sections; [[Updating Sugar]] could hold general guidance on that process. They can stand independently, or be composed by transclusion into [[Supported systems]] or [[Systems that run Sugar]]. All these pages should be targeted primarily for non-developers, but with guidance that serves as a primer for curious and developing minds. --[[User:FGrose|FGrose]] 20:57, 27 June 2012 (EDT)
::: I have edited [[User:Inkyfingers/Supported_distributions|(working title) Supported distributions]] --[[User:Inkyfingers|Inkyfingers]] 04:20, 28 June 2012 (EDT)
The downside of distributions pages being top level pages is that they (and their child pages) cannot then be collected together automatically. I have added the Community/Distributions SubPage index to [[Supported systems]], to demonstrate a different approach. If the distro-specific material currently in [[Supported systems]] could all be updated into correct distro page, would the resulting [[Supported systems]] page be useful? --[[User:Inkyfingers|Inkyfingers]] 22:29, 29 June 2012 (EDT)
: Yes, temporarily; but please design [[Supported distributions]] to be transcluded in place of the sections mentioned above. Each supported distribution page can also be categorized as such and then collected in a Category page. The Special:PrefixIndex page is useful as an interim list, but suffers because it cannot be formatted, annotated, logo-ized, or reordered, such as by completeness and currency of Sugar support, like the proposed replacement. --[[User:FGrose|FGrose]] 22:49, 29 June 2012 (EDT)
:: I have edited [[User:Inkyfingers/Supported_distributions|(working title) Supported distributions]] --[[User:Inkyfingers|Inkyfingers]] 06:32, 30 June 2012 (EDT)
* Why not just link to the Community Distributions wiki pages links shown on the SCK page, [[Sugar_Creation_Kit#Linux_distributions_where_sugar_is_available_are_listed_below:|Linux Distributions where sugar is available]]? Why reinvent the wheel? I feel that this listing on SCK (which is almost all the result of my investigation) is important to be left alone on the SCK page. --[[User:Satellit|Satellit]] 09:25, 30 June 2012 (EDT)
*: Please understand that the wiki allows [[mediawikiwiki:Transclusion]] of whole pages (with some adjustments, which are convenient only for reusing one part of a page). Also note the publishing and maintenance goals to reduce redundancy described in [[Talk:Sugar_Creation_Kit#Split_Sugar_Creation_Kit_page|the call to reorganize the SCK page]]. If [[Sugar_Creation_Kit#Linux_distributions_where_sugar_is_available_are_listed_below:|Linux Distributions where sugar is available]] is the best listing, it can be integrated to serve the full wiki, as in this demonstration, [[Supported distributions]]. --[[User:FGrose|FGrose]] 10:17, 30 June 2012 (EDT)