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Google Code-in 2012 KDE

Amarok: move relevant pages from the old wiki to the new wiki

completed by: Vlad Andrew

mentors: Myriam Schweingruber

Amarok long had it's own server and recently decided to move to the KDE infrastructure. This also mean moving all existing and relevant documentation to the KDE wiki. While this is already done for the handbook and user relevant pages, there is still much to move to thehttp://community.kde.org/Amarok/ location.

The old wiki location is currently blocked for new user accounts so the student will have to copy the content and paste it with a good mediawiki formatting in a sub-page of the new location.

Old wiki location: http://amarok.community.kde.org

A lot of the content in the old location will only be kept for archive purposes, so only pages relevant to the current Amarok 2.x series should be moved for now. Please look at the "Special pages" section in that wiki to find the existing pages.

New target location: http://community.kde.org/Amarok/

There already is a new landing page with 6 different sections:

http://community.kde.org/Amarok/GettingStarted -> Informations needed to get Amarok installed for the end user. All pages in this section should have the tags [[Category:Amarok]] and [[Category:GettingStarted]]

http://community.kde.org/Amarok/Community -> Amarok developer and user contributed content, events, blog links, etc. All pages in this section should have the tags  [[Category:Amarok]] and [[Category:Community]]

User Guides, redirecting to http://userbase.kde.org/Amarok/Manual

http://community.kde.org/Amarok/Development -> All content relevant to current Amarok development. All pages in this section should have the tags  [[Category:Amarok]] and [[Category:Development]]

http://community.kde.org/Amarok/Proposals, currently redirecting to the old wiki location http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/Proposals. -> Developer and user contributed proposals. All pages in this section should have the tags  [[Category:Amarok]] and [[Category:Proposals]]

The student needs to make new sub-pages in these sections to organize the content, as well as link these new subpages in the relevant sections.

It is possible that the old wiki contains spam pages, these should not be moved, of course, but a link should be provided in the upload document so the page can be erased.

Also there are quite a lot of translated pages: we do not move these, as the translations are often incomplete and outdated.

Help:

The Community wiki has the same rules as the Userbase wiki, so you can refer to this document: http://userbase.kde.org/Ub-helpfiles-new-content-redirect for page editing and creating.

Mediawiki markup help -> you can find some hints here: http://userbase.kde.org/Typographical_Guidelines and of course here: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Contents


Prerequisites:

A recent Amarok 2.6 or git version to be able to identify relevant content and update it if necessary to reflect the latest version

Mediawiki editing knowledge, logic thinking, able to create a hierarchic documentation structure. User account on http://community.kde.org

Task completion:

A document listing and linking the old and new URLs, with details of eventual updates in the content, uploaded in the *.ods spreadsheet format. 30 pages should be moved and documented.

Please double-check the following:

  • missing tags
  • missing text preceding the page menu
  • page formatting
  • don't move pages related to Amarok 1.4!
  • list spam pages you found, don't move them!
 

Contact details:
 

If you are interested in this task, please contact Mamarok in #rokymotion on irc.freenode.net. I am in the UTC+1 timezone.