Personally I would like to see the wiki merge happen sooner rather than later, (same with the forums). I also lean towards the newer more modern LEDE look and feel, (but I care more about the information being clean and clear).
IMHO there is momentum being killed off the longer we put this off. The wiki's are in major need of some cleaning up and consolidating. I was personally given the run around with attempting to get an image of a device, (lede-project official site references https://lede-project.org/toh/start which points to devices in the OpenWRT wiki while https://lede-project.org/toh/views/toh_fwdownload seems to have the LEDE links). Things honestly seems to be a mess right now. (I would say the same issue with the forums).
I completely agree with having a device template as a standard, (information is useless if not presented in a clean and clear for the intended user).
I would also think that creating a new wiki and archiving and making RO the openwrt and lede-project is the way to go, (I would add Legacy Wiki LInks as part of the template to point to the RO equivalents).
In that context: The OpenWrt/LEDE wiki pages for the various Lantiq xrx200 devices are a mess, including links to outdated out-of-tree builds, no way to find other devices from the same family, conflcting howtos and just general ouch.
I plan to start a few of them from scratch. Which template should I use, and in which wiki should I enter the data to make this easier for those who do the wiki merging afterwards?
The last three columns, (the second last column for LEDE wiki is non-existent, it should be removed). The Techdata / Device page should be the first link, (and not a "View / Edit" link, call it the "Device page" so users are not detoured). The openWRT wiki links should be the last column (far too many people are treating that as the first source of information and are stranded on page without references back to updated LEDE information.
Wiki editing tasks, no. I have not updated the LEDE wiki but have for OpenWRT when I find things I can fix.
I also wouldn't discourage new users from making suggestions and wanting to help since they will mention and point out problems that veteran users will no have the eye for anymore.
I believe my suggestions are meet the requirements.
My suggestions are attempting to correct issues on points 1, 2 and 5 on the TOH page, (which I do not have access to modify). My main intention is to fix the issues that I encounter to make the next users experience easier. TOH is the first page that most users will go to and should not misdirect users.
View/Edit leads to the dataentry page, not the devicepage.
No chance to get that renamed, because it is perfect as is. If it's not broken, don't fix it.
LEDE columns: will be removed shortly.
The devicepages are the first source of information, at least they should be.
The fact that many devicepages are a mess that has grown over time is sufficiently known -> different topic on its own
The disconnect between the OpenWrt wiki devicepages and the LEDE ToH will be fixed shortly (I hope).
Thomas, I know it wasn't you personally who made that decision, but if I knew ahead of time that's how the site/wiki would look like, I wouldn't have contributed. I can't see myself contributing to something with that theme now -- I just don't think people in general will be absorbing much information from the web-site, so why waste my time. The banner tag line says Wireless Freedom, design makes me think Ham Radio.
I don't think I've ever seen a modern site with black text on gray-ish background. It looks very dated.
Black text on gray-ish background doesn't make reading easy, actually makes my eyes water.
Dark-blue visited links on gray-ish background are barely distinguishable from black text.
I understand that it was a demand by a group of developers and you guys had to do it -- what can we do now to convince these devs that people who actually use the web-site/wiki and contribute to it want the fresher LEDE Project-type theme/look?
Based on mailing list discussion in May 2017, it is pretty easy to figure out who were the "Openwrt-side" guys whose demand it was to have the old Openwrt-like look & feel.
Selected quotes from the discussion in lede-adm and lede-dev:
update the landing page to have the same look & feel as the current openwrt landing page
Well, I like the L&F of lede-project.org better - but it's not something worth bikeshedding over, so meh, fine...
Well, the OpenWrt one might be from 2000s, but the LEDE one is from '95 I think the CSS jow did for the OpenWrt forum looks the best TBH
and
update the landing page to have the same look & feel as the current
openwrt landing page
Why?
Well, we're not wikipedia so it doesn't hurt if the site has at least some CSS
