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Hi,
edit: moved to [[FlightGear wiki:Village pump#Category:Support]]
 
I didn't read through all of your ideas yet, but isn't "Support" a rather obscure term? Everything could fit under that branch, so we'll end up with yet another giant category; which you tried to prevent, right? Or maybe I'm just missing the bigger picture...
 
[[User:Gijs|Gijs]] ([[User talk:Gijs|talk]]) 13:23, 11 May 2014 (UTC)
: Hi, I figured out that support organization is a major problem. There's a lot of "support" related articles, 2-3 articles only on OpenGL. I hoped that this name could indeed be wide enough, and that in case it could just be renamed. Troubleshooting seemed to narrow to me on the other side, but if you think that would be better I can change it now (waiting for response before proceeding).--[[User:Bigstones|Bigstones]] ([[User talk:Bigstones|talk]]) 13:29, 11 May 2014 (UTC)
 
:: Take [[Settings for slower graphics cards]] for example. It's categorised under [[:Category:Performance tuning]]. I would expect that to be a sub of [[:Category:Support]]. Anyone looking for articles on how to improve performance can check that category then. I don't expect anyone to go through a very broad category with 100s of articles to find info on a rather specific subject.
:: Or maybe I should reword my comment into a question: What would be the use case of [[:Category:Support]]?
:: [[User:Gijs|Gijs]] ([[User talk:Gijs|talk]]) 13:39, 11 May 2014 (UTC)
:: PS: I know we have a lot of bloated categories on this wiki, so I'm glad you've brought all this back on the agenda ;-)
::: With the example: I confess I was probably deceived by the presence of some development related stuff in [[:Category:Performance tuning]]. I thought it would be better to separate development and usage. Framerate is either a user issue, or a developer's aim. I think the two can be separated. The problem is I moved out the most of it! I should consider the contrary. I'll undo. (I currently have like 20 open browser tabs so it might take me some time).
::: The use case however is: gather support articles so that a maintainer can split/merge them to make them more organized. Once that's done, there won't probably be more than 10 articles, and if there are, still one can subcategorize. In the above case, I just took the longest path, but given the lack of tools I confess I just wanted to get started.
::: --[[User:Bigstones|Bigstones]] ([[User talk:Bigstones|talk]]) 14:00, 11 May 2014 (UTC)
::: ... I must confess also that after undoing, I feel the urge to redo that again. The two non-support related articles, [[GIT Performance Tests]] and [[Howto:Use the system monitor]] (where btw, the "profiling" section might be directed to ''core'' developers?) would have no place if I move this category into support. That's also why I moved it into Development. Let me know what you think , also regarding the Support category name.
::: --[[User:Bigstones|Bigstones]] ([[User talk:Bigstones|talk]]) 14:24, 11 May 2014 (UTC)
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