[OGDev] Visiting other OpenGuides

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 12:49:40PM +0100, Kake L Pugh wrote:

> I've been doing a bit of copyediting on some of the non-RGL guides
> recently; I feel pretty comfortable doing this on the Oxford Guide
> because Socks thanked me for it on #openguides.  I was wondering if it
> might be a good idea if we maybe chose a week some point soon to visit
> each other's guides and do a bit of editing.  Even if we're unfamiliar
> with a particular city, we can still do typo fixing, tidying up
> formatting, sorting out any duplicated content, making sure
> everything's in the category it should be in, even adding new
> categories to pull together existing content, or adding content such
> as external links if that's appropriate for that particular guide.

Yes - this sounds excellent.

> (Maybe making progress on the OGL Great Renaming could form part of
> this, if that project is still going on?  Though I wouldn't want it
> to dominate the week.)
> 
> I think this would build up the community feeling a bit more, as well
> as breathing fresh life into all of the guides, and being a project
> that even non-coders can get their teeth into.  What do people think?
> 
> A prerequisite for this would be some documentation about what
> is/isn't appropriate on a given guide, since this isn't always obvious
> - for example, I've not been sure whether it's appropriate for me to
> add new categories to the Oxford Guide - but having this documentation
> would be very useful anyway, and is a worthwhile project in itself.  I
> think it's also a project that _demands_ external input, since it's
> only by having other people asking "is it OK to do this?" that we can
> be sure we've set down the things that are so embedded in our minds
> that we never actually think about them.

And this is particularly good to have at a targetted time, so that
people are geared up to answering these sort of questions - especially
on IRC.

> Thoughts?

To give people a chance to gear up to this, how about declaring the week
commencing 14th May as such a week?

Dominic.

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