Talk:Wiki instructions

Is it worth laying out a basic category structure and asking users to adhere to that? And perhaps pointing them to the special page for categories so they can see what already exists and try to include relevant information in pre-existing categories?

If the wiki grows the current state where there are 3 or 4 categories for steam, a dozen different fab categories etc etc, is only going to get worse and make rectifying the problem that much more difficult.

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Yes, good idea! I will make a small start.

Email from Conor 2011-04-30

• Articles on various appropriate technologies are fine, but only if they focus on open-source or DIY aspects. There's no point explaining the benefits of, say, basalt fibers, unless you give instructions on how people can get them and use them. There's already a perfectly good appropriate technology wiki - Appropedia - and it'd be a waste of time to just reduplicate their efforts.
• Our first priority should be documenting hardware and how to build, but there is also room for other kinds of pages
• We need to clarify whether self-improvement topics like meditation are relevant
• We need a category for handling essays on sociology, economics, guiding philosophies etc.
• If we are archiving old conference calls etc., we need a better system for categorizing them.
• We need to make a clearer distinction between Factor e Farm housekeeping stuff and stuff relevant to people offsite