Gentoo Wiki:Developer Central/Project pages

Creating a new project page
First of all, you need to decide on a URL name for your project. Keep it as simple as possible: For instance, if you are the 'Gentoo Fnord Project', call it 'Fnord'. Note the first letter will always be uppercased by the Wiki software.  http://wiki.gentoo.org/Project:Fnord  will be the project space of the Fnord Project with Project:Fnord as its main page.

You can add more documents to your project space. For instance you could have your project policies available under  http://wiki.gentoo.org/Project:Fnord/Project policy . This makes the page 'Project policy' a subpage of your project space.

Your subpages should all contain a category (the main page is automatically added). Either, use Category:Projects, or create a new one for your project (Category:Project:Fnord in our example). Should you create your own category, it should contain Category:Projects as its parent. To add a category to a page or another category, put a link at the end of the contents: Adding a category

Now you're ready to create your project page:

Migration from www.gentoo.org/proj/
To migrate your project page from www.gentoo.org to the Wiki, create a project page as outlined above. Then, you should get all

Automatically converted documents
To help migrating contents, we provide automatically converted versions of GuideXML documents.

These are available at:  http://dev.gentoo.org/~swift/tmp/proj2wiki/ </tt>. For example, if the old URL was http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/infrastructure/index.xml, the converted version is available at http://dev.gentoo.org/~swift/tmp/proj2wiki/infrastructure/index.xml.

FAQ

 * A developer is not listed to be added as a member. / I added a developer in the source and it only shows garbage.
 * The developer in question did not properly set up his account on the Wiki. Direct them to the user setup documentation. After successful completion of the account setup, the


 * I just added a subproject, but the project page doesn't list it. / On my user page, a newly added project doesn't show up.
 * The subprojects list is cached. To clear the cache, go to the upper right menu, next to 'Edit' there is a dropdown menu (with a downwards arrow), in there select 'Refresh'.


 * Where do I put additional files?
 * You can upload media files to the Wiki, where they will be editable by all users. Everything else as well as files you do not want to risk being edited should remain on www.gentoo.org for the time being. A replacement hosting arrangement will be posted in due time.


 * Who can edit the project pages?
 * Everything in the Project:</tt> namespace is only editable by Gentoo developers.


 * I want to let certain users edit pages.
 * This feature will be available in the future. To gauge interest, please let the Wiki Team know you request this feature.