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== Introduction ==
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See the [[Editing Quickstart Guide]] for a short introduction to editing pages.
 
 
 
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See below for various ideas for things to edit on the site.
 
 
 
== Transfer ELC and ELC Europe presentations to this wiki ==
 
A lot of good presentation material from previous Embedded Linux Conferences is stored
 
on the [http://tree.celinuxforum.org/CelfPubWiki CELF public wiki].  That site has
 
been deprecated as a place for new materials, and has rather weird download
 
attributes, due to it being based on the MoinMoin wiki engine (that is, it requires
 
weird URLs for documents, and multiple clicks to download things).
 
 
 
I'd like to get all the presentations currently on the CELF wiki moved over here so
 
they can be linked easily from related topic pages here.
 
 
 
Here are a list of CELF wiki pages that I think should be moved.  Feel free to check
 
off the items on this list as they're moved:
 
 
 
NOTE - Please search for these files prior to uploading a new one.  Most of these presentations are already in the elinux.org database, they simply need to have their links added to the applicable pages.
 
 
 
* <del>[http://tree.celinuxforum.org/CelfPubWiki/TechConference2005Docs Tech Conf 2005]</del>- already found on [[Tech_Conference_2005Docs]] page.
 
* <del>[[ELC 2006 Presentations]]</del> - this one is done!
 
* [http://tree.celinuxforum.org/CelfPubWiki/ELC2007Presentations ELC 2007]
 
* [http://tree.celinuxforum.org/CelfPubWiki/ELCEurope2007Presentations ELC Europe 2007]
 
* [http://www.celinux.org/elc08_presentations/ ELC 2008]
 
** This is not on the public wiki, but on celinux.org.  But these should be moved also.
 
* [http://tree.celinuxforum.org/CelfPubWiki/ELCEurope2008Presentations ELC Europe 2008]
 
* [http://tree.celinuxforum.org/CelfPubWiki/ELC2009Presentations ELC 2009]
 
** berkus created the page for this [[ELC 2009 Presentations]] the ELC 2010 wiki BOF, but didn't move the documents
 
* [http://tree.celinuxforum.org/CelfPubWiki/ELCEurope2009Presentations ELC Europe 2009]
 
 
 
Finally, Tim should update the presentation archive list at: http://www.embeddedlinuxconference.com/
 
and the [[eLinux.org:Current_events Events]] page should be updated with new links.
 
 
 
== Subjects to Research ==
 
 
 
List here pages or subjects you'd really like to see explored on the wiki:
 
 
 
* ?
 
* ?
 
 
 
== Volunteering to improve the wiki ==
 
Below please find links to various pages with information and ideas for content and feature additions
 
to the eLinux wiki.
 
 
 
(Various lists have crept up over the years, lets try to gather links to them here:)
 
 
 
Lists of editor tasks:
 
* [[Volunteer editor tasks]]
 
* [[Embedded wiki issues list]]
 
** Specific cleanup tasks
 
*** Resolve duplication between [[Embedded Linux Distributions]] and [[Hardware Hacking]] pages (and one other page mentioned by Klaas)
 
* Create [[Wanted]] pages
 
** See also [[Special:Wantedpages]]
 
A lot of wanted pages are just dangling links from the Help pages, for pages that were not
 
created when we initially set up the wiki.  I think most of these types of pages can just be
 
set to stubs.  Alternatively, we can look at the MediaWiki site and copy the page from their
 
site for these dangling help examples.
 
 
 
Another big set of wanted pages are for links between pages that were copied from
 
the old CELF public wiki to here.  This was done with some automated tools, which I think
 
made some errors in the translation from MoinMoin to MediaWiki. If the
 
legacy CELF page exists in this site, the link on the "requesting" page just needs to
 
be repaired.  If there is not matching page, then the link should just be removed.
 
 
 
Just for fun, I'm keeping track over time of some metrics:
 
=== Wanted page count history ===
 
{| border="1"
 
||Date||Wanted page count
 
|-
 
||Dec 12, 2008||233
 
|-
 
||April 6, 2009||241 (why up?)
 
|-
 
||April 15, 2010||122
 
|}
 
 
 
Why do these stats occasionally rise?
 
On occasion, the Help pages are re-imported to pick up new pages.  This can cause increases in Wanted Pages when the new pages have new page links on them that are not yet present in the new pages set.
 
 
 
* add categories to [[Special:Uncategorizedpages|Uncategorized pages]]
 
* de-orphan [[Special:Lonelypages|Orphaned pages]]
 
To de-orphan a page, follow the link to the page, and create a link to it from
 
an appropriate other page in the wiki. Before doing that, check to make sure that the
 
information on the page is not duplicated somewhere else in the wiki (maybe by doing
 
a search).  Alternatively, sometimes the information can be copied from the orphan
 
to someplace else, and the orphan removed.  If you copy the information to somewhere else,
 
just edit the orphan to make it empty, and add the page name to the list here, and an
 
administrator will remove the page.
 
 
 
List of empty orphan pages:
 
* <put page name here>
 
 
 
=== Orphan page count history ===
 
{| border="1"
 
||Date||Orphan page count
 
|-
 
||Dec 12, 2008||122
 
|-
 
||April 6, 2009||134 (what the heck?)
 
|-
 
||Dec 2, 2009||89
 
|-
 
||Dec 9, 2009||30
 
|}
 
 
 
Lists of administrator tasks:
 
* [[Embedded wiki to-do list]] - a task list for administrators
 
* [[Embedded Wiki wanted features]]
 
 
 
Other lists:
 
* [[Elinux issues]] - miscellaneous ideas of things to do
 
 
 
== Resources for volunteers and wiki administrators ==
 
To communicate with other elinux wiki volunteers, editors and administrators, please join
 
our
 
* [[ELinuxWiki:Mailing List|Mailing list]]
 
* [[eLinuxWiki:History|History page]] - has information about how we got here and why.  Also, has links to pages used for previous activities, like contests and promotions.
 
 
 
== Ideas to encourage contributions ==
 
 
 
=== systems to facilitate exiting content review ===
 
* create email system that people can subscribe to, to review wiki pages a little at a time
 
 
 
=== systems to facilitate addition of content ===
 
* ability to bounce an LKML email to a collector, possibly adding a tag
 
** collector would post to wiki, with tag
 
* ability to forward and LKML email to a site, which returns you a URL (on e.g. lkml.org) for that message
 
** This makes it easier to link to an LKML message or thread.
 
* ability to rate LKML messages on a web site
 
 
 
== Donations ==
 
We don't really have an official mechanism for donations of money.
 
 
 
We are, however, looking for donations of items we can use for prizes
 
for some of our upcoming contests. Embedded Linux-based products,
 
or tools or books related to embedded Linux, would be most appreciated.
 
 
 
If you have something like this, or a large donation (greater than $100), please
 
contact [[User:TimBird|Tim Bird]] or [[User:wmat|Bill Traynor]].
 
 
 
Tim is available at: tim (dot) bird (at) am (dot) sony (dot) com.
 
Bill is available at: wmat (at) alphatroop (dot) com.
 

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