Multimedia & ISDN pages now with release tagging

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On Jun 7, 2006, at 3:11 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:

> ...
>> Corey Burger wrote:
>>
>> There are a fair number of wiki pages that only apply to one release,
>> mostly becuase they deal with a hardware issue that has been solved  
>> in a later release. After Warty EOLed, I went around and cleaned up
>> reference to it from our docs. This was an annoying task, because I
>> had to go and find each page.
>
>I bet it was annoying for those whose hardware doesn't support anything  
>later than Warty, too.
>
>> Therefor I would like to propose a process of tagging pages for  
>> releases.
>
>Excellent idea. We last had this discussion back in February.
><https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-doc/2006-February/ 
>005029.html> My suggestion is the same now as it was then:
>
>    == Applies to: ==
>     * Ubuntu 5.04
>    == Does not apply to: ==
>     * Ubuntu 5.10 and later



OK, so I've applied this to two pages; the MultimediaApplications page
and the ISDN howto (perhaps we should call it IsdnNetworking instead):  

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MultimediaApplications

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IsdnHowto

Like its siblings OfficeApplications and GraphicsApplications, MultimediaApplications 
provides an overview of the most popular and commonly used apps in
that category. I think we could now go and just link any installation or configuration pages off that.

For example, I have made a subpage for mplayer that provides more 
details on the features as well as installation and configuration 
instructions for Dapper.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MultimediaApplications/MPlayer

The installation instructions for Breezy and earlier are different, and
so they get their own subpage 

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MultimediaApplications/MPlayer/Breezy

This way, the reader only sees the instructions for previous versions
when needed.

The subpages with release-specific info could be named after the last
version they apply to, with extra pages for other releases if needed.

I think this naming convention would be both simple and intuitive 
(i.e. easy to find)  and a good way to stop the proliferation of pages 
named  "xyz-HoaryInstallHowto" and such.

I've done something similar for the instructions that apply to Breezy 
& Hoary on the ISDN page. 

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IsdnHowto/Breezy

Other subpages can carry info on hardware support etc. and all 
parents and subpages should explicitly link to each other for clarity.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ISDNHowto/HardwareSupport

Btw, I think we should have the Kubuntu default apps where they differ
from Ubuntu, for example on the GraphicsApps page. I've got started 
with that on MM.

Comments?



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