<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV>On Jan 12, 2007, at 8:52 PM, Steven Peck wrote:</DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P dir="LTR"><SPAN lang="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"><FONT size="2" face="Arial">There are some empty contributed modules pages. These were all created as part of a bigger pu</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"><FONT size="2" face="Arial">s</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"><FONT size="2" face="Arial">h to get</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"> <FONT size="2" face="Arial">t</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"><FONT size="2" face="Arial">hings doc</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"><FONT size="2" face="Arial">umented</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"> <FONT size="2" face="Arial">in the</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"> handbook. The hope at the time is that people would pick it up and start adding pages/</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"><FONT size="2" face="Arial">details</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"> to expand on these to</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"> <FONT size="2" face="Arial">help</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"> their favorite</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"> <FONT size="2" face="Arial">contrib.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"> <FONT size="2" face="Arial">module, etc. </FONT></SPAN></P><DIV><SPAN lang="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"></SPAN><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><P dir="LTR"><SPAN lang="en-us"></SPAN><A href="http://drupal.org/handbook/config/contribmodules"><SPAN lang="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"><U><FONT color="#0000FF" size="2" face="Arial">http://drupal.org/handbook/config/contribmodules</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN lang="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"></SPAN></P><P dir="LTR"><SPAN lang="en-us"><FONT size="2" face="Arial">I am going to start removing those pages I find that</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"> <FONT size="2" face="Arial">merely exist</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"> as placeholders</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"> so if you are in love with a module now</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"><FONT size="2" face="Arial">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"><FONT size="2" face="Arial">s the time to go update your page</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"><FONT size="2" face="Arial">. It</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"><FONT size="2" face="Arial">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"><FONT size="2" face="Arial">s been a year and many of</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"> <FONT size="2" face="Arial">the pages</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"> haven</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"><FONT size="2" face="Arial">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"><FONT size="2" face="Arial">t been touched so I</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"><FONT size="2" face="Arial">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"><FONT size="2" face="Arial">d</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"> <FONT size="2" face="Arial">rather</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"> not have the placeholder if there is no content. This will allow for random people to add a page</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"> if they are so moved in the future and less</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"> <FONT size="2" face="Arial">maintenance</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"> for the rest of us.</FONT></SPAN></P></BLOCKQUOTE>Do we have a list of those empty pages? </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>(Other idea:) Better, if we drop the empties, is there a way we can somehow track modules that exist (and more important are branched for current releases) against modules that have pages describing them? While I or anyone may not go look to see if a given module has a documentation page, I probably would be more motivated to go post some instructions on using a module I'm familiar with. In other words, if I don't see the lack, I won't know that it's needed.<BR></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Do we want to explore establishing node relationships between projects and potential documentation pages. (In fact, if we could use node relation wildcard-type connections/links, we could add a lot of versatility for cross-linking through handbook pages, and linking to projects. Even a project-specific taxonomy for handbook pages and project pages could help achieve this.)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>My goal in writing this isn't to throw work at someone, but rather to see if there's a setup we can pursue so that we aren't so dependent upon manual tracking of related content. If we can set up the structure well, our documentation and contributor community can more manage itself.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Is there any interest in pursuing something like this, anyone? It's a webmaster list topic as well, it seems. I'll raise my hand as someone interested and willing to participate in such an effort. It would be wonderful if we could more fully leverage Drupal's power on D.o, while at the same time not taxing server performance too much, given the realities we have today.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Laura</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>