[wiki] PAE page: formatting and flavor-agnosticism

[Pasi Lallinaho]

Hello Ubuntu Documentation team (CC: Moergaes),

as some of you have noticed, there has been discussion about the PAE
page [1] on the community wiki previously this year outside the mailing
list. I'm bringing this issue up again as a community wiki administrator.

Please bear with me while I briefly go through the history of the story
so far.


Early this year, I edited the PAE landing page to make it less of a wall
of text. The updated version is revision 43 [2]. This landing page
shortly explains what PAE is and then proceeds to point to the pages
that explain how to enable PAE on Pentium M's and/or older releases. In
addition, I changed the text to be flavor-agnostic instead of the
Lubuntu-centric approach the page used to have before.

To keep the structure consistent, I moved the actual "guide" pages under
the PAE page; the instructions on how to enable PAE on Pentium M
processors (with (or without) the forcepae flag) is at PAE/PentiumM [3]
(at least in revision 10 [4]) and the guide to enabling PAE on older
releases is at PAE/Enabling [4].


However, after these changes, the page was quickly reverted back to the
old revision with some minor changes to make it less Lubuntu-centric.

After discussing the matter with the original page author, it seemed
obvious that he disagreed on what was useful and what not. Since then
I've talked with some wiki administrators and active people - who have
supported my revision - and he has created a forums thread [6] where
some people supports his, and some aren't completely sure which one is
better.

The page was left looking like the old version, since the original
author showed no signs of willingness to cooperate and improve the page
to reach a compromise that satisfied both parties.


Yesterday I got a notification of a page change - the PAE page has very
Lubuntu-centric wording again. I the Lubuntu-centric approach is a wrong
call and that the page would be much more accessible if it wasn't the
wall of text it currently is.

That's the story; everybody, but especially other wiki administrators -
what do you think?
    Which page layout do you prefer more?
    If appropriate, how would you improve the layout you prefer?


Cheers,
Pasi

[1] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PAE
[2] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PAE?action=recall&rev=43
[3] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PAE/PentiumM
[4] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PAE/PentiumM?action=recall&rev=10
[5] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PAE/Enabling
[6] http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2263647&p=13254310&viewfull=1

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