P2P Foundation Wiki Taxonomy Maintenance

A structure for the organization of P2P Foundation Resource Collections is proposed. Resource Collections appear in the global taxonomy and navigation at Category:P2P Resource Collections.

This document focuses on particular categories and actions needed to bring them into alignment with the use of P2P Foundation Resource Collections

The current site usage says that users want a simple site with a low barrier to entry.

Simple is good. It's important that users, especially new users, feel comfortable adding information and that they don't run into any big complexity issues.

Top level navigation

The Resource Collections are organized together as follows:

P2P

Some of the current bifurcated subject matter categories:

• Design
  • Managers
  • Proposed Structure
  • Current Structure
  • Changes Required

• Manufacturing
  • Managers
  • Proposed Structure
  • Current Structure
  • Changes Required

• Peer Governance
  • Michel Bauwens
  • Proposed Structure
    • Category Peer Governance
    • Category Page holds a set of links to top level pages in the category which are also listed below as having been categorized in Peer Governance.

• • Current Structure
  • Changes Required

• Theory
  • Managers
  • Proposed Structure
  • Current Structure
  • Changes Required

The Changing Taxonomy

Current Taxonomy

May 28, 2010

Special:Categories

Editing Tasks for Taxonomy

Changes to the Current Taxonomy

• Recategorize Michel's ordered Book into the Theory Category
• Establish "Major Category" Taxonomy on this page. Idea's welcome.
• Recategorize pages into Subcategories
  • User:GoodRollin is arranging pages in subcategories in the area of Category:Commons like Category:Thing Commons .
    • Will also be doing some organizing under "Commons Based Enterprise/Production/Making/Interchange/Systems" once I talk to people about what the heck it should be called.
  • Move country page content into a new subcategory/country page. Sometimes this may serve as introduction to the language pages of a country as well. We may be able to list language pages on this page later using an extension.
  • Move Category:Individuals pages to Category:Bios pages and retitle them with Firstname Lastname (instead of last first).
    • Do a search and merge duplicates along the way.

- Note on naming conventions: Hi Mark, I do not agree with the use of CamelCase, which is machine language, though you could write your name "Firstname Lastname". However, the existing convention, taken from the library and documentation world, is "Lastname, Firstname". Since there are already hundreds of entries in that format, please let's stick to it.

1. Write a page on naming conventions. Currently people are named two ways - for refernece LastName, FirstName and for editing the wiki FirstInitialLastName. For working within the wiki however, people will not be writing LastName, FirstName, too difficult. Maybe FirstInitialLastName, but more naturally is just your name. MarkDilley