Tags on wiki.ubuntu.com not working

[Matthew East]

Hi David,

On 23 May 2011 21:35, David D. Lowe <daviddlowe.flimm at gmail.com> wrote:
> It seems that some _include_ commands do not work correctly on
> wiki.ubuntu.com. Inspired by Jorge Castro's talk at UDS-O, I wanted to
> get to work tagging pages for deletion. The official wiki contribution
> documentation [0] tells me to include this code:
>
> <<Include(Tag/Deletion)>>
>
> This doesn't seem to have any effect. It looks like it only works on
> help.ubuntu.com, not wiki.ubuntu.com.
>
> Could this tag be added to wiki.ubuntu.com?

We have some special customisations on the help.ubuntu.com wiki which
are designed for and implemented especially for that wiki and user
documentation in general. There is no reason why these couldn't be
adapted for use on wiki.ubuntu.com, but the guidelines would need to
be rewritten to suit the team wiki, and I think that is something
rather outside the scope of the documentation team's work - guidelines
for this should be agreed with the development team in particular, as
the heaviest user of the team wiki.

However, arguably such a tag isn't really necessary for the team wiki,
because any user can delete a page on that wiki. That's different to
the help wiki, where page deletion rights are restricted.

> Why is the documentation split between help.ubuntu.com and
> wiki.ubuntu.com, and is there a plan to migrate pages?

There shouldn't be any user documentation on wiki.ubuntu.com. As its
frontpage explains, that wiki is for Ubuntu team coordination, and not
user documentation. The user documentation goes on help.ubuntu.com.

The reason for this is explained on this spec from several years ago
when help.ubuntu.com was created:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BetterWikiDocs

If you find documents on the team wiki which are user documentation,
you can migrate them using these instructions, that would be very
helpful:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CategoryDocumentation

-- 
Matthew East
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